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,