[Exeunt Hilda and Vavir together.

Enter Florian. He comes down, looking around him in admiration.

Flor. All men who say I’m five-and-twenty, lie.

I was born but to-day! An hour ago!

Yes—this must be the World. The distant land

In which I’ve passed so many years, and which

I, in my puppy-blindness, called “The World,”

Is but its antechamber.

Enter Mousta (with book).

Born to-day,