TIME: six months later.
PLACE: the vineyard.


THE THREE SONS.
THE FRUIT MERCHANT.


[The MERCHANT enters the vineyard with the THREE SONS.]

MERCHANT. You say your grapes are ripe?

FIRST SON. They are ripe and ready to sell, sir.

SECOND SON. Come, now, and look at them.

[They cross to the vines.]

MERCHANT. Why, I have never seen such grapes as these!