C: GUSTAVE! It's alright, it's me! Gustave... please take him away. I'm so sorry... Please forgive him, he meant no harm...
P: How could you think I wouldn't guess?
C: What do you mean?
P: How could you think I wouldn't know?
C: Oh no...
P: Do you have something to confess?
C: Don't make me!
P: I want the truth, right now, if so!
C: Once upon another time, you went off and left me alone... but that's not all you did... You left me with a son. Ever since that other night, I wished, how I wished you'd have known! I kept the secret hid... the secret my marriage forbid! What else could I have done? Just live,
P: A son...
C: Just live
P: A son...
C: Just give what I could give... and take what little I deserve...
P: (spoken) My own flesh and blood... and even he recoils in horror from me... just like his mother.
C: Forgive me, I beg you, if you can. I've brought you nothing but woe! Tomorrow night I'll sing with all my might! Sing for you again!
(spoken) And we'll go.
P: From out of ugliness, such light. From out of darkness, such a flame. In him my wrongness is made right... and yet he loathes me just the same. So let him shun me in disgust! Let him flee this cursed face! If I must hide from him, I must! Yet shall he be my saving grace!
Oh Christine, my Christine, if it's true, I've no reason to live... then Christine, then the boy shall have all I can give! Ah, Christine! All I create on this earth... all that I'll never be worth... all shall be his!