PIPER
So!
MICHAEL [with conviction] Truly said.
BARBARA [proudly] Michael.
JACOBUS
Who is he, pray?
BARBARA
My own true love.
PETER the Cobbler
Now, is that all his name?
BARBARA
It is enough.
JACOBUS
—She's mad. Shall these things be?
ALL
( The Children! The Children!
( Where are the Children?
( Piper! Pi-per! Piper!
PIPER
[sternly]
Quiet you. And hear me.
I came to bring good tidings. In good faith,
Of mine own will, I came.—And like a thief
You haled me hither.—
[They hang upon his words]
. . . Your children—live.