LIGHT You will see plenty of others, as the influence of the diamond spreads through the halls.... There are many more Happinesses on Earth than people think; but the generality of men do not discover them....
TYLTYL Here are some little ones: let us run and meet them....
LIGHT It is unnecessary: those which interest us will pass this way. We have no time to make the acquaintance of all the rest....
(A troop of little HAPPINESSES, frisking and bursting with laughter, run up from the back of the halls and dance round the CHILDREN in a ring.)
TYLTYL How pretty, how very pretty they are!... Where do they come from, who are they?...
LIGHT They are the Children's Happinesses....
TYLTYL Can one speak to them?
LIGHT It would be no use. They sing, they dance, they laugh, but they do not talk yet....
TYLTYL (skipping about) How do you do? How do you do?... Oh, look at that fat one laughing!... What pretty cheeks they have, what pretty frocks they have!... Are they all rich here?...
LIGHT Why, no, here, as everywhere, there are many more poor than rich....