TYLTYL (going to the next door) Let us look at this one..... What is in here?...
NIGHT Take care!... It is the Wars.... They are more terrible and powerful than ever.... Heaven knows what would happen if one of them escaped!... Fortunately, they are rather heavy and slow-moving.... But we must stand ready to push back the door, all of us together, while you take a rapid glance into the cavern....
(TYLTYL, with a thousand precautions, opens the door ajar so that there is only a little gap to which he can put his eye. He at once doubles his back against the door, shouting.)
TYLTYL Quick! Quick!... Push with all your might!... They have seen me!... They are all coming!... They are breaking down the door!...
NIGHT Come, all together!... Push hard!... Bread, what are you doing?... Push, all of you!... How strong they are!... Ah, that's it!... They are giving way!... It was high time!... Did you see them?...
TYLTYL Yes, yes!... They are huge and awful!... I don't think that they have the Blue Bird....
NIGHT You may be sure they haven't.... If they had, they would eat him at once.... Well, have you had enough of it?... You see there is nothing to be done....
TYLTYL I must see everything.... Light said so....
NIGHT Light said so!... It's an easy thing to say when one's afraid and stays at home....
TYLTYL Let us go to the next.... What is in here?...