[ACT TWO.]
SCENE ONE—A forest on the mountain tops, the great trees glooming with the shadows of nightfall. In the distance, between the dark boles, patches of sky with the fading light of evening. The scene slopes down into a clump of tangle-wood on the left. Up the slope, upon a stump that stands out from among the trees, Selma is sitting with her head bowed, her face almost hidden by her hair which has fallen forward across her shoulders. She is dressed in dappled fawn-skin. In her hand she has a spray of dog-wood blossoms from which she is thoughtlessly tearing the leaves. From the thicket below, three fairies steal in one after another, having in their hands wild-flowers and ferns.
TIME—Early spring, three years later.
First Fairy— (Running a little way up the slope and stopping.)
Sister, see! (Holding forth her flowers.) Kingcups!
Second Fairy—(Running closer.) Sister, see, I bring
The laced fern.
Third Fairy—(Running still closer.) See, see! Violets, sister!
I found them waking in an open place
Where the dew falls. (Together they approach the stump.)
Second Fairy—(Softly.) Sister!
Third Fairy— Flowers, sister.