in scene viii, after a gay offstage chorus, a mélodrame (5), introduces the theme of mitifio, a cow-herd; he has come to reveal that the arlésienne has been another’s mistress for two years. in the mélodrame and final chorus (6), frédéri is about to go off to arles, but francet tells him what mitifio said. the chorus bursts in with a reprise of (5) as frédéri’s theme accompanies his collapse by the well.