TYLTYL Just a year ago?... Why, then....
LIGHT Come, come!... Don't open great eyes like sapphire caves.... It's the dear old house of your father and mother....
TYLTYL (going up to the door) But I think.... Yes, really.... It seems to me.... This little door.... I recognise the wooden pin.... Are they in there?... Are we near mummy?... I want to go in at once.... I want to kiss her at once!...
LIGHT One moment.... They are sound asleep; you must not wake them with a start.... Besides, the door will not open till the hour strikes....
TYLTYL What hour?... Is there long to wait?...
LIGHT Alas, no!... A few poor minutes....
TYLTYL Aren't you glad to be back?... What is it, Light?... You are quite pale, you look ill....
LIGHT It's nothing, child.... I feel a little sad, because I am leaving you....
TYLTYL Leaving us?...
LIGHT I must.... I have nothing more to do here; the year is over, the Fairy is coming back to ask you for the Blue Bird....