- Abdel, bandit chief: Cassim, you have great need to purify your soul.
- Cassim: I know want I need to do. This year I'll leave to Mecca, to accomplish my peregrination.
- Abdel, bandit chief: The serpents who travels to Mecca does not become a pilgrim.
- Ali Baba: What is your name?
- Morgiane: Morgiane.
- Ali Baba: Oh! Morgiane! It is beautiful. Are you sad?
- Morgiane: [sadly stares at him]
- Ali Baba: What could I give you, to pass the time...?
- Morgiane: [stares at him]
- Ali Baba: Do you want a kitten? Meow?
- Morgiane: [shakes her head]
- Ali Baba: Do you want a little dog? Bow bow bow?
- Morgiane: [shakes her head]
- Ali Baba: Oh! The parrot. You want the parrot.
- Morgiane: [nods and opens a large smile]
- Ali Baba: I will get it for you. I like to talk with you. Most women's talk is tiresome, but yours... It pleases me.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Once upon a time, in a small town in the Orient, there was a good man, named Ali Baba.