Mother
Now, go right to bed, children. It is ten o'clock.
(Takes light and goes with husband into room right. Children undress and scramble into one bed.)
(Street noises all discontinue, back of room opens out on to the orchard and the music of first scene is heard with dancing children. Everychild comes into the room with her rosy lamp. The three children sit up in bed and rub their eyes. Everychild glides all about the room and looks at the squalid place in dismay, then goes up and smiles at the children.)
Everychild
You are some of the lost children. How did you get in here? Come with me. I will give you some better clothes and you can dance and sing with all of them.
(They get out of bed and she leads them in wonder and joy out into the orchard.)
(CURTAIN FALLS)
Scene III: Plain interior of a farmer's kitchen with farmer's wife busy over stove, and kitchen table set for lunch for two. Adjacent room, left, small bedroom in which lies a pallid thin child in bed with dishes and bottles on little bedside table. Very little light. Curtains to a single window down. Farmer in overalls comes in, looking hot and tired. He throws hat on chair, says "Hullo, Mary, dinner ready?" and proceeds to wash hands and face in a basin on a stool. Then sits down at the table.