DESTINY
I am not man's servant.... Forward, forward, forward!...
(They go out.)
SCENE IV
A Closet in the Fairy's Palace
A sort of waiting-room or lumber-room containing the principal accessories of the Tales of Mother Goose: Cinderella's pumpkin and glass slipper; Red Ridinghood's cake and bowl; Hop-o'-my-Thumb's pebbles; the Ogre's daughters' golden crowns; the Sleeping Beauty's distaff and snake-tub; the Giant's seven-leagued hoots; Blue Beard's key; the Blue Bird in his silver cage; and, hanging from the wall, Catskin's weather-coloured, moon-coloured and sun-coloured dresses. All these things look rather tawdry in the grey and unbecoming light. TYLTYL'S seven little friends are locked up in this room. In the same unsympathetic light they look much less pretty than when they entered the cottage and they seem rather tired, discontented and glum, except THE VEILED GIRL, who stands on one side, motionless, impassive and unrevealing.
BELLINE
Where have they brought us?
ROSARELLE
I don't know; but I must say that it's not a nice place in which to keep young ladies waiting.