Alice—(beginning to cry) Oh, I want to go home. I want to go home! It’s a dreadful Christmas! Oh, I’d be so good if I could only go home!
Frank—So would I. No more grumbling for this young chap.
Fairy—(dancing in) So you’ve come to your senses?
Frank—Yes, indeed we have, dear Fairy. If you’ll only take us home, we’ll mind our teachers and parents, and be willing to keep rules, and learn lessons.
Fairy—You will? And you, Alice?
Alice—Oh, take us home, dear Fairy, do! I’ll be so good, if you will.
Fairy—And you’ll remember the lessons you’ve learned?
Both—We will. We couldn’t help it. (Fairy has flitted to front. They have followed, leaving all the others where curtain will hide them when it falls.)
Fairy—Then close your eyes, take hold of hands, and turn around three times, saying, “Home again, home again, never to return again,” then open your eyes, and you’ll see what you’ll see.
(As they do so, inner curtain falls, and she flits out. As they open their eyes, she calls back, “Remember.”)