TYLTYL Where are the poor ones?...
LIGHT You can't distinguish them.... A Child's Happiness is always arrayed in all that is most beautiful in Heaven and upon Earth.
TYLTYL (unable to restrain himself) I should like to dance with them....
LIGHT It is absolutely impossible, we have no time.... I see that they have not the Blue Bird.... Besides, they are in a hurry: you see, they have already passed.... They too have no time to waste, for childhood is very short....
(Another troop of HAPPINESSES, a little taller than the last, rush into the hall, singing at the top of their voice, "There they are! There they are! They see us! They see us!" and, dance a merry fling around the CHILDREN, at the end of which the one who appears to be the chief of the little band goes up to TYLTYL with hand outstretched.)
THE HAPPINESS How do you do, Tyltyl?...
TYLTYL Another one who knows me!... (To LIGHT) I am getting known wherever I go!... (To the HAPPINESS) Who are you?...
THE HAPPINESS Don't you recognise me?... I'll wager that you don't recognise any one here!
TYLTYL (a little embarrassed) Why, no.... I don't know.... I don't remember seeing any of you.
THE HAPPINESS There, do you hear?... I was sure of it!... He has never seen us!...