Oh! now I know what I have done!

I’m a thief, Mee-Mee! I must run!

Poor Yunglangtsi! There, let it stay!

I’m a much bigger thief to-day:

I’m stealing you!

[Knocking at inner door. Tikipu throws open the street door: the warm hues of dawn stream in.

Tiki.

Dawn, Mee-Mee, dawn! Look how the hands of light

Reach up and lift the covering cowl of night

From the blush-blinded eyes of Heaven! And she,