.. I've still got the rheumatics!...
GAFFER TYL (_hobbling along as fast as he can_)
No more can I.... That's because of my wooden leg, which I still wear
instead of the one I broke when I fell off the big oak....
(_The_ GRANDPARENTS _and the_ CHILDREN _exchange frantic
embraces_.)
GRANNY TYL
How tall and strong you've grown, Tyltyl!
GAFFER TYL (_stroking_ MYTYL'S _hair_)
And Mytyl!... Just look at her.... What pretty hair, what pretty eyes!...
GRANNY TYL
Come and kiss me again!... Come on to my lap....
GAFFER TYL
And what about me?...
GRANNY TYL
No, no.... Come to me first.... How are Daddy and Mummy Tyl?...
TYLTYL
Quite well, granny.... They were asleep when we went out....
GRANNY TYL (_gazing at them and covering them with caresses_)
Lord, how pretty they are and how nice and clean!... Was it mummy who
washed you?... And there are no holes in your stockings!... I used to darn
them once, you know.... Why don't you come to see us oftener?... It makes
us so happy!... It is months and months now that you've forgotten us and
that we have seen nobody....
TYLTYL
We couldn't, granny; and to-day its only because of the Fairy....
GRANNY TYL
We are always here, waiting for a visit from those who are alive.
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