[Falls dead.
Moths.All hail, all hail!
Tramp. Life and death—seems they’re both good if we know how to treat ’em. I’m a battered old moth, I am, but I’ll dance with yer! All hail to life!
Moths. All hail, all hail!
[Moth after Moth falls dead.
Tramp. Butterflies, beetles, moths, and men—why can’t we all live ’appy together? The world’s big enough, and life could be ’appy for everythink—if we ’ad a bit o’ sense.
Chrysalis. (Shrieking) Out of my way! Behold!
[She rends her husk and leaps forth as a Moth.
Tramp. What? You, Chrysalis? Reely born?