) There is still one missing....
It is no use his hiding, I see him in the crowd.... You can't deceive
me!... Come on, you, the little fellow whom they call the Lover, say
good-bye to your sweetheart....
(_The two_ CHILDREN _who are called the Lovers, fondly entwined,
their faces livid with despair, go up to_ TIME _and kneel at his
feet_.)
THE FIRST CHILD
Mr. Time, let me stay behind with her!...
THE SECOND CHILD
Mr. Time, let me go with him!...
TIME
Impossible!... We have only three hundred and ninety-four seconds left....
THE FIRST CHILD
I would rather not be born!...
TIME
You cannot choose....
THE SECOND CHILD (_beseechingly_)
Mr. Time, I shall come too late!...
THE FIRST CHILD
I shall be gone before she comes down!...
THE SECOND CHILD
I shall never see him again!...
THE FIRST CHILD
We shall be alone in the world!...
TIME
All this does not concern me.... Address your entreaties to Life.... I
unite and part as I am told....(_Seizing one of the_ CHILDREN.)
Come!...
THE FIRST CHILD (_struggling_)
No, no, no!... She, too!...
THE SECOND CHILD (_clinging to the clothes of the_ FIRST)
Leave him with me!... Leave him!...
TIME
Come, come, he is not going to die, but to live!.
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