Coq. No, no! (he runs towards barrel.)
Not there! (He runs to table.)
I have it! Here! pretend to be a chair.
(She takes cover off chair and puts it over him with arms extended so that he looks like a chair.)
There! Now you’re safe, you need’nt now be daunted.
Meet me to-morrow by the tree that’s haunted.
(Goes to door, opens it and looks out.)
What! no one here? how strange! who can it be?
Perhaps I’d better go outside and see.
(Goes outside. The “Fairy of the Forest” steps in and closes door.)