MUMMY TYL _lays
a finger on her lips, to impose silence upon him, and then goes out to the
right, on tiptoe, after first putting out the lamp. The scene remains in
darkness for a moment. Then a light, gradually increasing in intensity,
filters in through the shutters. The lamp on the table lights again of
itself, but its light is of a different colour than when_ MUMMY TYL
_extinguished it. The two_ CHILDREN _appear to wake and sit up in
bed_.
TYLTYL
Mytyl?
MYTYL
Tyltyl?
TYLTYL
Are you asleep?
MYTYL
Are you?...
TYLTYL
No; how can I be asleep when I'm talking to you?
MYTYL
Say, is this Christmas Day?...
TYLTYL
Not yet; not till to-morrow. But Father Christmas won't bring us anything
this year....
MYTYL
Why not?
TYLTYL
I heard mummy say that she couldn't go to town to tell him ... But he will
come next year....
MYTYL
Is next year far off?...
TYLTYL
A good long while.... But he will come to the rich children to-night....
MYTYL
Really?...
TYLTYL
Hullo!... Mummy's forgotten to put out the lamp!... I've an idea!...
MYTYL
What?...
TYLTYL
Let's get up....
MYTYL
But we mustn't....
TYLTYL
Why, there's no one about...
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