the next music (the intermezzo used in the second suite) depicts vivette, the local girl who wants to marry frédéri, preparing her parcels to take on the rhone ferry (15). after men prepare to go out shooting game rose and the others fear that frédéri might kill himself. at the end of the act (16) when frédéri decides that vivette can help him forget his obsession, balthazar and rose express their relief.