How glad I shall be to see her again!... She was so nice, so sweet, so beautiful, so affectionate and kind!...
THE FAIRY
Come, give Destiny your hand; it's time to start.
(TYLTYL stretches out his arm to the monster, who grips the boy's little hand and wrist in his huge bronze-coloured hand.)
TYLTYL
Here you are, sir.... (Giving a cry.) Hi!... It's not a hand. It's a steel vice!...
THE FAIRY
It's nothing, you'll get used to it.... Come, is everything ready at last? Nothing more that we've forgotten? Then one, two, three and off we go!...
(A knock at the door.)
THE FAIRY