THE FAIRY
So much the worse for you. I can't understand it either.... Come, get dressed. Here's the little jacket which Light brought you.... And now, with one stroke of the wand, we will enter the ballroom and see what your little friends have made of themselves. (She touches the panels of the closet, which disappear.)
SCENE V
A Ballroom in the Fairy's Palace
(All that remains standing is the columns and aisles forming the portico of an immense, luminous room, which might have been hewn and carved out of a mountain of amber. Under the dazzling arches THE SIX GIRLS move about, arrayed in resplendent, trailing gowns, with their feet encased in gilt sandals, their hair hanging loose and their hands filled with flowers. They joyously beckon to TYLTYL, who, at first dumbfounded, rushes towards them and joins in their games and dances. THE VEILED GIRL alone stands on one side, leaning against the column.)
THE FAIRY
(Observing DESTINY, draped in a long black cape, with a broad-brimmed Spanish sombrero on his head.) I say, there's Destiny!... She has dressed him like the villain in a play!... (Clapping her hands.) Come, children, it is time to be starting.... All this doesn't count: the real work is about to begin....
CURTAIN