Sokiti. Never again....
Pakh. I shall forget all I have endured.
Sokiti. I shall be famished; and I shall be able to eat until my hunger is gone ... every day!
Bitiou. And I—I shall be tall, with straight strong legs, like the rest of the world.
Pakh. That will be better than having been prince on the earth.
They laugh. The Steward appears.
Steward. What are you doing there? [Striking them with the whip] Your mistress comes! Begone!
They go out.
The Steward bows low before Mieris who is blind, and who enters with her arms full of flowers and led by Yaouma.
The Steward retires.