Part 30 (2/2)

TYLTYL (_going to the window_) And look at the forest!... How big and fine it is!... One would think it was new!... How happy I feel here!... (_Going to the bread-pan and opening it_) Where's Bread?.... I say, the loaves are very quiet.... And then here's Tylo!... Hullo, Tylo, Tylo!... Ah, you had a fine fight!... Do you remember, in the forest?...

MYTYL And Tylette.... He knows me, but he has stopped talking....

TYLTYL Mr. Bread.... (_Feeling his forehead_) Hullo, the diamond's gone!...

Who's taken my little green hat?... Never mind; I don't want it any more.... Ah, Fire!... He's a good one!... He crackles and laughs to make Water angry.... (_Running to the tap_) And Water?... Good-morning, Water!... What does she say?... She still talks, but I don't understand her as well as I did....

MYTYL I don't see Sugar....

TYLTYL Lord, how happy I am, happy, happy, happy!...

MYTYL So am I, so am I!...

MUMMY TYL What are you spinning round for like that?....

DADDY TYL Don't mind them and don't distress yourself.... They are playing at being happy....

TYLTYL I liked Light best of all.... Where's her lamp?... Can we light it?...

(_Looking round him again_.) Goodness me, how lovely it all is and how glad I feel!...

MUMMY TYL Why?...

TYLTYL I don't know, mummy....

(_A knock at the front-door_.)

DADDY TYL Come in, come in!...

(_Enter the_ NEIGHBOUR, _holding by the hand a little girl of a fair and wonderful beauty, who carries_ TYLTYL'S _dove pressed in her arms_.)

THE NEIGHBOUR Do you see the miracle?...

MUMMY TYL Impossible!... Can she walk?...

THE NEIGHBOUR Can she walk?... She can run, she can dance, she can fly!... When she saw the bird, she jumped, just like that, with one bound, to the window, to see by the light if it was really Tyltyl's dove.... And then, whoos.h.!.+... Out into the street, like an angel!... It was as much as I could do to keep pace with her....

TYLTYL (_going up to her, wonderstruck_) Oh, how like Light she is!...

MYTYL She is much smaller....

TYLTYL Yes, indeed!... But she will grow bigger....

THE NEIGHBOUR What are they saying?... Haven't they got over it yet?...

MUMMY TYL They are better, they are mending.... It will be all right when they have had their breakfasts....

THE NEIGHBOUR (_pus.h.i.+ng the_ LITTLE GIRL _into_ TYLTYL'S _arms_).

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