(They threaten each other and are about to come to blows.)
LIGHT (raising her wand) Enough!...
BREAD The insults and the ridiculous pretensions of an element whose notorious misbehaviour and whose scandalous excesses drive the world to despair....
FIRE You fat pasty-face!
BREAD (raising his voice) Will not prevent me from doing my duty to the end.... I wish, therefore, in the name of all...
FIRE Not in mine!... I have a tongue of my own!...
BREAD In the name of all and with a restrained but simple and deep emotion, to take leave of two distinguished children, whose exalted mission ends to-day.... When bidding them farewell, with all the grief and all the fondness which a mutual esteem....
TYLTYL What?... You are bidding us farewell?... Are you leaving us too?...
BREAD Alas, needs must, since the hour when men's eyes are to be opened has not yet come.... I am leaving you, it is true; but the separation will only be apparent, you will no longer hear me speak....
FIRE That will be no loss!...