She sings at her window for his quick return, and Faust, listening, returns to her. Marguerite allows Faust to kiss her ( Laisse-moi, laisse-moi contempler ton visage), but then asks him to go away. Méphistophélès and Faust join the women in the garden and romance them. Marguerite tries on the jewels and is captivated by how they enhance her beauty, as she sings in the famous aria, the Jewel Song ( Ah! je ris de me voir si belle en ce miroir). Marthe, Marguerite's neighbour, notices the jewellery and says it must be from an admirer. Marguerite enters, pondering her encounter with Faust at the city gates, and sings a melancholy ballad about the King of Thule ( Il était un roi de Thulé). Méphistophélès brings in a decorated box containing exquisite jewelry and a hand mirror and leaves it on Marguerite's doorstep, next to Siébel's flowers. Faust sends Méphistophélès in search of a gift for Marguerite and sings a cavatina ( Salut, demeure chaste et pure) idealizing Marguerite as a pure child of nature. The lovesick boy Siébel leaves a bouquet for Marguerite ( Faites-lui mes aveux).
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