Act I. Scene I. In a forest. _Golo_ while hunting has lost his way

following a wild boar and come to a place unknown to him. There he sees a woman sitting by a spring. She acts like a figure in a fairy tale and behaves like a person stranger to and isolated from the world. Finally _Golo_ succeeds in inducing _Mélisande_--she at last tells him her name after being urged--to follow him out of the dark woods.