Yes, of course, it's your fault.... And, first, where have you come from? What have you done with your jacket and your green hat? TYLTYL Why, ma'am, I was busy dressing; I was putting on the little pair of silk breeches and the jacket embroidered with pearls which you told me I was to wear when I went to see the Ancestors.... Then I heard screams, dropped everything, ran up and found them fighting, tearing out one another's hair and scratching one another's faces.... THE FAIRY A pretty business!... That will teach you to run after them without your talisman, which reveals the truth.... I call it most incorrect and improper.... Don't you see that you are not seeing them now as they are?... TYLTYL I'm not seeing them as they are?... Then how do I see them?... THE FAIRY Why, as they are not, that is to say, as you ought never to see them.... It's all so wonderfully simple: anything that's ugly isn't true, never has been true and never will be. TYLTYL That's easily said; but you see what you do see. THE FAIRY When you see what you do see, you see nothing at all.... I've told you before, it's what you do not see that makes the world go round.... All this doesn't count; it's only a little foam on the surface of the ocean.... But run quickly and fetch the sapphire and we shall once more see deep down into their souls, the truth of their hearts and the well-spring of their life.... Wait, you needn't trouble: I see Light coming; she has brought you your hat. (_Enter_ LIGHT.) LIGHT Good-evening, Tyltyl. TYLTYL (_Throwing himself passionately into her arms_.) Oh, Light, Light!... It's my dear Light!... Where were you?... What have you been doing ever since I saw you last?... I have missed you so much and looked for you so often!... LIGHT My dear little Tyltyl!... I have never lost sight of you.... I have guided you and counselled you and kissed you very often, without your knowing it.... But we will talk about all this later; to-day we have no time; I have only one night to give you and there is a great deal to be done. (_Enter_ DESTINY.) DESTINY Where is Tyltyl? TYLTYL Here. I'm not trying to hide. DESTINY And quite right too, for it would be no use; there's no escaping me.... TYLTYL (_Contemplating him in astonishment_.) But what's the matter with you?... What has happened to you? You look so much smaller!... You seem to be less tall and less broad.... You're not ill, are you?... DESTINY (_Who has indeed shrunk appreciably_.) I? I never change, I am always the same; I am insuperable, insensible, invulnerable, immutable, inexorable, irresistible, invisible, inflexible and irrevocable!... TYLTYL All right, all right, what I said was merely.... THE FAIRY