TYLTYL
Yes, certainly; I love everybody: my parents, my friends, my sister, my neighbours, all the people I know.
THE FAIRY
Now oblige me and don't play the fool.... You know perfectly well what I mean.... I'm asking whether there's any one girl among those you meet whom you love more than the rest.
TYLTYL
(Blushing and considering.) I don't know....
THE FAIRY
(Angrier than ever.) What do you mean; you don't know? Who does know, if you don't? At your age a boy ought to think of nothing else: if he doesn't, he's a booby, a nincompoop and not worth bothering about!... There's nothing to blush at: it's when one's not in love that one should feel ashamed.... You and I are miles away just now from the falsehood of words: we are with the truth of our thoughts, which is a very different thing.... Come, among all the girls you've met....
TYLTYL
(Timidly.) I don't meet very many....