But I'm going now, Hank. Good-bye. I'm going to the green hill far away. [_He starts away leaving Hank alone and asleep. The lights fade out._ _Soft music is heard through the darkness and slowly the outline of the green hill appears close at hand. Jonathan outlined against the sky appears at the edge of the hill, climbing with difficulty._ NATHANIEL (_The voice is heard with the music_) Nine ninety-nine--one thousand. You're nearly there, Boy. JONATHAN Nine hundred and ninety-nine--one thousand--I'm almost there. NATHANIEL (_far away_) A thousand and one--a thousand and two-- JONATHAN A thousand and one, a thousand and two--I am here! NATHANIEL (_far away_) The world is here. JONATHAN (_as though addressing the world_) Listen.... I ran away. I ran away. I was fourteen. I saw visions of great things. I heard voices of the past and the future. I wanted to tell what I saw and heard.... Oh, you who made sport of my dreams, I am here at the top of the world! Uncle John, I have heard things you will never hear, and I have seen things you will never see. JOHN (_far away_) But your back's broken. JONATHAN Oh, Susan--Susan Sample--see--see. I told you I wasn't a beggar. See--see--Jonathan stands at the top of the world! SUSAN (_faintly_) But your back's broken. JONATHAN Oh, people of all the world, I am a boy who asks you to hear me and to understand. I only wanted to work out _my_ way.... I planned my way because I couldn't help it--I wanted to build my own world--alone.... I climbed clear to the top--Jonathan stands before you-- VOICES Jonathan's dead. JONATHAN Dead?... Oh, see the wreck of everything.... Jonathan _is_ dead! [_He falls._ NATHANIEL Boy--boy--Jonathan!--I believe you are you. JONATHAN Uncle Nathaniel! [_He rises slowly._ Oh, people of all the world, my Uncle Nathaniel understands.--I speak for all the boys of all times. Have patience--patience and understanding. Don't you remember when you were young? We come to you with hopes and dreams and wishes and fears,--and these are the things that life is made of-- NATHANIEL I am here, Jonathan. JONATHAN I'm coming to you. I'm coming back to you with all my hopes and dreams. NATHANIEL We're waiting for you, Jonathan. JONATHAN I've made my wish that's coming true!! [_He jumps into space._ _Curtain._ ACT III JONATHAN MAKES A WISH [_The scene is a summer house on the estate of John Clay. It is charmingly furnished with wicker chairs and a table. The building is hexagon shape and we look into half the hexagon. The doors at the left open on to the path that leads from the house. The doors at the back open onto a garden path that leads to a gate. Eight weeks have elapsed since the first act._