 A gentle oboe melody is accompanied by the strings, who maintain a theme imitative of spinning.The movement although in the traditionally sad key of G minor, represents, in Larner's view, "the one moment of happiness shared by Pelléas and Mélisande".Nectoux writes that although the piece was reused from an earlier work (incidental music to Molière's "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme") very few people would guess that it was not composed for "Pelléas and Mélisande", so appropriate is it to its purpose.