Tiki. They shan’t have you, Mee-Mee! Quick, let us go!
[Knocking is heard without.
Mee. No, no ... it too late now!... Go, hidee, Tiki, go hidee!
Tiki. In here!
[They run into pantry.
[Enter Students and Apprentices, followed by bearers with hooded palanquin, which is set down, propped on stools, in the centre of the stage.
Chorus.
Oh, who will go inside?
Oh, who will bring the bride,
For the knot to be tied as it ought?