Flib. Oh, I am sorry! I was so looking forward to having a Cry-Baby for a new Governess. I’d have given her something to cry for. Never mind! I’ll give the old Governess a worse time of it.
Alice (to Flibbie). You horrid little monster! (To Governess) Oh, but this is too terrible! How can I leave you to all this misery, and for my sake? I should always be thinking of you. No! you shall not make this sacrifice for me. (To Hyacinthia) Fairy, forget what she has said, and give me my punishment!
Hya. No, Alice, that cannot be, for the charm is broken! But be comforted, for there is also happiness for her who has restored you your happiness. (To Governess) Once having been made a Fairy, you must always remain a Fairy, but the memory of the days when you were a mortal child shall fade away, and only glad thoughts shall be yours. You have aged beneath your constant cares, but a Governess no longer, be young once more, and let a bright raiment be in keeping with your Future!
Hyacinthia waves her wand and a change comes over the Fairy Governess. She is now young looking, and she wears a glittering dress.
Hya. (to Governess). I appoint you to be Alice’s Good Fairy; to watch over her, and to guide her lovingly all through her life.
Alice (to Governess). Ah! how beautiful you are, and as good as you are beautiful!
Hya. Look your last on her, Alice, for you will never see her again. When you have left Hyacinth Dell she will be invisible to you, but she will always be with you, and you will only feel her presence.
Flib. And what about me? Without any Governess to tease and torment, life won’t be worth living.
Hya. Then, Flibbie, I will make it worth living. Your nature shall change, and, from being the most wilful and perverse Elf in Fairy Land, in future all the other Elves will look upon you as a model of obedience, sweetness, and goodness, in your new appointment as aide-de-camp to Alice’s Good Fairy.
Flib. (to Governess). For the last time ask me to spell something!