TYLTYL It's wonderful, Mummy: you have the same voice also; but you speak much better than you do at home....
MATERNAL LOVE At home, one has too much to do and there is no time.... But what one does not say one hears all the same.... Now that you have seen me, will you know me again, in my torn dress, when you go back to the cottage tomorrow?...
TYLTYL I don't want to go back.... As you are here, I want to stay also, as long as you remain....
MATERNAL LOVE But it's just the same thing: I am down below, we are all down below.... You have come up here only to realise and to learn, once and for all, how to see me when you see me down below.... Do you understand, Tyltyl dear?... You believe yourself in Heaven; but Heaven is wherever you and I kiss each other.... There are not two mothers; and you have no other.... Every child has only one; and it is always the same one and always the most beautiful; but you have to know her and to know how to look.... But how did you manage to come up here and to find a road for which men have been seeking ever since they began to dwell upon the Earth?...
TYLTYL (pointing to LIGHT, who, discreetly, has drawn a little to one side) She brought me....
MATERNAL LOVE Who is she?...
TYLTYL Light....
MATERNAL LOVE I have never seen her.... I was told that she was very fond of you both and very kind.... But why does she hide herself?... Does she never show her face?...
TYLTYL Oh, yes, but she is afraid that the Joys might be frightened if they saw too clearly....
MATERNAL LOVE But doesn't she know that we are waiting only for her! (Calling the other GREAT JOYS) Come, come, sisters! Come quickly, all of you! Light has come to visit us at last!...