with a fine idea.] Perhaps you can help me,—yes, I
do believe you children are the very ones who can.
Children. [Eagerly.] Oh, tell us how!
[They gather near him.]
Father Time. Well, my dears, a sad state of affairs
exists in my family. I’m ashamed to tell you—but
my twelve children have been quarreling.
Children. Children quarreling! How shocking!
Father Time. True, true, my friends. And the
worst of it is that they declare they will never leave