.. Why? I've been up since six o'clock.... I've
finished all the cleaning and lit the fire....
TYLTYL
But ask Mytyl if it's not true.... Oh, we have had such adventures!...
MUMMY TYL
Why Mytyl?... What do you mean?...
TYLTYL
She was with me.... We saw grandad and granny....
MUMMY TYL (_more and more bewildered_)
Grandad and granny?...
TYLTYL
Yes, in the Land of Memory.... It was on our way.... They are dead, but
they are quite well.... Granny made us a lovely plum-tart.... And then the
little brothers--Robert, Jean and his top--and Madeleine and Pierrette and
Pauline and Riquette, too....
MYTYL
Riquette still goes about on all fours!...
TYLTYL
And Pauline still has a pimple on her nose....
MUMMY TYL
Have you found the key of the cupboard where daddy hides his brandy
bottle?...
TYLTYL
Does daddy hide a brandy bottle?...
MUMMY TYL
Certainly. One has to hide everything when one has little meddlesome
good-for-nothings like you.... But come, out with it, confess that you took
it.... I would rather it was that.... I sha'n't tell daddy.... I sha'n't
beat you....
TYLTYL
But, mummy, I don't know where it is....
MUMMY TYL
Just walk in front of me, so that I may see if you can walk straight.
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