THE FAIRY
Haven't I told you again and again, we're no longer in the world below!... Can't you feel that the air is much purer and the light quite different?... We are now in a sphere in which men and women don't quarrel or wish one another harm. All of that was merely make-believe and doesn't exist deep down.... If some of them are unhappy because you hesitate in your choice, they will none the less hope on until the end; and they know very well that where there is love there must also be sorrow....
TYLTYL
How will they come in?
THE FAIRY
Upon my word, I don't know. Each of them will do what occurs to her: one will choose the window, another the roof, the wall, the cellar or the chimney ... one or two even will come in by the door; but those are the least interesting: they lack imagination.... However, we shall see when the time comes. We've talked enough; time presses; come, turn the sapphire....
TYLTYL
(Trying to gain time, in order to conceal his terror.) Which way round am I to turn it?
THE FAIRY
The same as with the diamond, from right to left.... (Looking at TYLTYL.) Goodness me, how pale you are!... What has come over you? Surely you're not afraid?...