SUGAR (hovering round his paper wrapper) I've burst my packing-paper!...
MILK (lymphatically and bashfully) Somebody's broken my little jug!...
THE FAIRY Goodness me, what fools they are!... Fools and cowards too!... So you would rather go on living in your ugly boxes, in your traps and taps, than accompany the children in search of the bird?...
ALL (excepting the DOG and LIGHT) Yes, yes! Now, at once!... My tap!... My pan!... My chimney!... My trap!...
THE FAIRY (to LIGHT, who is dreamily gazing at the wreckage of her lamp) And you, Light, what do you say?
LIGHT I will go with the children....
THE DOG (yelling with delight) I too!... I too!...
THE FAIRY That's right.... Besides, it's too late to go back; you have no choice now, you must all start with us.... But you, Fire, don't come near anybody; you, Dog, don't tease the Cat; and you, Water, hold yourself up and try not to run all over the place....
(A violent knocking is again heard at the door on the right.)
TYLTYL (listening) There's daddy again!... He's getting up this time; I can hear him walking....