THE OLDEST CHILD
Of course you are!... I am very glad to see you for a minute, for we shall most nicely not have the pleasure of meeting on earth.... Well, I understand that your visit to the Ancestors was not much of a success.
TYLTYL
Let's rather put it that they hadn't quite made up their minds. But how is it that you already know what happened there?
THE OLDEST CHILD
Why, of course we know everything that happens inside you; we're there ourselves. Besides, there's very little that separates us from the Ancestors: our interests are the same and our paths often meet.
THE FIRST CHILD
Look out! Here are the little ones!... I see five coming.... There's only one missing, the littlest....
(From the back of the halls come five LITTLE CHILDREN holding one another's hands.)
TYLTYL