GRANNY TYL
He did nothing wrong. He used to steal bread or other little things which one could eat, to keep his children from starving. He suffered a great deal; we think a lot of him....
(THE ANCESTORS continue to leave their houses. An imposing and richly-dressed MAN appears on the threshold of the fifteenth-century mansion.)
TYLTYL
(Pointing to him.) And that one?
GAFFER TYL
That one is the richest.... It appears we were very rich at one time, but that didn't last.... However, it doesn't matter here: the only thing that counts, it seems, is what a man has done or thought.... For instance, you see those beggars over there, coming out of the church?
(Enter from the twelfth-century church some four or five BEGGARS, clad in rags that are pitiful to look at, but idealized by the fairy atmosphere.)
TYLTYL
Yes, any number of them.