THE FIRST CHILD I shall be gone before she comes down!...
THE SECOND CHILD I shall never see him again!...
THE FIRST CHILD We shall be alone in the world!...
TIME All this does not concern me.... Address your entreaties to Life.... I unite and part as I am told....(Seizing one of the CHILDREN.) Come!...
THE FIRST CHILD (struggling) No, no, no!... She, too!...
THE SECOND CHILD (clinging to the clothes of the FIRST) Leave him with me!... Leave him!...
TIME Come, come, he is not going to die, but to live!... (Dragging away the FIRST CHILD.) Come along!...
THE SECOND CHILD (stretching her arms out frantically to the CHILD that is being carried off) A sign!... A sign!... Tell me how to find you!...
THE FIRST CHILD I shall always love you!...
THE SECOND CHILD I shall be the saddest thing on earth!... You will know me by that!...