They must find it very tiresome to be kept waiting like that!
LIGHT
Nothing is ever tiresome in infinity. Besides they have to learn here all that they will forget on earth.
TYLTYL
It seems hardly worth while then, to take so much trouble!
LIGHT
Oh, but it is! Something always remains and helps to build up the deep happiness of life.
TYLTYL
Well, so much the better for them! As for me, I shall soon know what I am to do. I hope we shall get through to-day, because, you see, I'd like to have things settled.... But where on earth can they be, those girls of mine and Destiny? (Looking below him, on the right.) The poor little dears are up to their knees in the snow. This place is even higher and more difficult to get at than where the Ancestors lived.
LIGHT