Tell me, Nino, have you thought of me in all this time ?" she asked, in her turn; and there was the joy of the answer already in the question.
"As the earth longs for the sun, my love, through all the dark night.
You have never been out of my thoughts.

You know that I went away to find you in Paris, and I went to London, too; and everywhere I sang to you, hoping you might be somewhere in the great audiences.

But you never went to Paris at all.

When I got Professor Grandi's letter saying that he had discovered you, I had but one night more to sing, and then I flew to you." "And now you have found me," said Hedwig, looking lovingly up to him through the shadow.
"Yes, dear one; and I have come but just in time.

You are in great trouble now, and I am here to save you from it all.