TYLTYL Oh, that's all, is it?... And, after that, what will you do?...
THE CHILD After that?... I shall leave you....
TYLTYL It will hardly be worth while coming!...
THE CHILD We can't pick and choose!...
(At that moment, a sort of prolonged, powerful, crystalline vibration is heard to rise and swell; it seems to emanate from the columns and the opal doors, which are irradiated by a brighter light than before.)
TYLTYL What is that?...
THE CHILD That's Time!... He is going to open the gates!...
(A great change comes over the crowd of BLUE CHILDREN, Most of them leave their machines and their labours, numbers of sleepers awake and all turn their eyes towards the opal doors and go nearer to them.)
LIGHT (joining TYLTYL) Let us try to hide behind the columns.... It will not do for Time to discover us....
TYLTYL Where does that noise come from?...