 The opening scene of the piece reveals Clochette alone, singing as she sits at the spinning wheel.Gilbert and Sullivan would reuse this idea in the opening scene of their 1888 opera, "The Yeomen of the Guard".Like Gilbert's 1871 entertainment, "A Sensation Novel", the work was rescored by Pascal two decades later in a style reminiscent of early Debussy, but unlike his score for "A Sensation Novel", it seems to fit this work well.