What bad disobedient children we've been!
We ought to have thought and gone home sooner!
(Cuckoo behind the scenes, rather nearer than before.)
Hänsel.
Hark, what a noise in the bushes!
Know you what the forest says?
"Children, children," it says,
"Are you not afraid?"
(Hänsel spies all around uneasily, at last he turns in despair to Gretel.)
Gretel, I cannot find the way!