I then continued by a prayer to God while _Toby_ fell asleep. César next appeared as the monster fish and the audience trembled with fear. César had been well taught by the gardener, Père Larcher, and he advanced slowly from under the blue muslin. He was wearing his mask, representing the head of a fish. Two enormous nutshells for his eyes had been painted white, and a hole pierced through them, so that the dog could see. The mask was fastened with wire to his collar, which also supported two gills as large as palm leaves. César, sniffing the ground, snorted and growled and then leaped wildly on to _Toby_, who with his cudgel, slew the monster at one blow. The dog fell on his back with his four paws in the air, and then rolled over on his side, pretending to be dead. There was wild delight in the house, and the audience clapped and stamped. The younger pupils stood up on their stools and shouted: “Good César! Clever César! Oh, good dog, good dog!” The Sisters, touched by the efforts of the guardian of the convent, shook their heads with emotion. As for me, I quite forgot that I was the _Angel Raphael_, and I stooped down and stroked César affectionately. “Ah, how well he has acted his part!” I said, kissing him and taking one paw and then the other in my hand, while the dog, motionless, continued to be dead. The little bell was rung to call us to order. I stood up again, and accompanied by the piano, we burst into a hymn of praise, a duet to the glory of God, who had just saved _Toby_ from the fearful monster. After this the little green serge curtain was drawn and I was surrounded, petted, and praised. Mother Ste. Sophie came up onto the platform and kissed me affectionately. As to Louise Buguet, she was now joyful again and her angelic face beamed. “Oh, how well you knew the part!” she said. “And then, too, everyone can hear what you say. Oh, thank you so much!” She kissed me and I hugged her with all my might—at last I was in it! The third scene began. The action took place in _Father Toby’s_ house. _Gabelus_, the _Angel_, and young _Toby_ were holding the entrails of the fish in their hands and looking at them. The _Angel_ explained how they must be used for rubbing the blind father’s eyes. I felt rather sick, for I was holding in my hand a skate’s liver, and the heart and gizzard of a fowl. I had never touched such things before and every now and then the sick feeling made me heave, and the tears came into my eyes. Finally, the blind father came in, led by _Toby’s_ sister. _Gabelus_ knelt down before the old man and gave him the ten silver talents, telling him in a long recital, of _Toby’s_ exploits in Media. After this _Toby_ advanced, embraced his father and then rubbed his eyes with the skate’s liver. Eugénie Charmel made a grimace, but after wiping her eyes she exclaimed: “I can see, I can see. O God of goodness, God of mercy, I can see, I can see!”