TYLTYL
Are there many of them?
GRANNY TYL
What do you think! All your ancestors since the world began! There'd be so many that we shouldn't know where to put them!... But we shall only see a few of them. A good many are travelling in other worlds; and, as a fact, some of the oldest are always away. But those who are on the spot choose in the name of all. They always agree; and it seems they very seldom make a mistake.... But here's one coming out of his house. You see the little man shutting up his shop?
(A spruce LITTLE MAN is seen leaving the eighteenth-century shop.)
TYLTYL
Who's he?
GRANNY TYL
It's your grandfather's grandfather; he was a grocer at Versailles in the reign of Louis the Fifteenth.
TYLTYL