...
LIGHT
Now let me, in my turn, children, give you a last kiss....
TYLTYL and MYTYL (_hanging on to_ LIGHT'S _dress_)
No, no, no, Light!... Stay here with us!... Daddy won't mind.... We will
tell mummy how kind you have been....
LIGHT
Alas! I cannot!... This door is closed to us and I must leave you....
TYLTYL
Where will you go all alone?...
LIGHT
Not very far, my children; over there, to the Land of the Silence of
Things....
TYLTYL
No, no; I won't have you go.... We will go with you.... I shall tell
mummy....
LIGHT
Do not cry, my dear little ones.... I have not a voice like Water; I have
only my brightness, which Man does not understand.... But I watch over him
to the end of his days.... Never forget that I am speaking to you in every
spreading moonbeam, in every twinkling star, in every dawn that rises, in
every lamp that is lit, in every good and bright thought of your soul....
(_Eight o'clock strikes behind the wall_.) Listen!... The hour is
striking!... Good-bye!... The door is opening!... In with you, in with
you!...
(_She pushes the_ CHILDREN _through the door, which has half-opened
and which closes again behind them_. BREAD _wipes away a furtive
tear_, SUGAR _and_ WATER, _etc.
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