(_Supporting her head_.) Have you some water there?... We ought to send for a doctor.... BELLINE She's as white as marble.... She might be dead.... ROSARELLE No, no, she's coming to.... I can hear her heart beating.... THE FAIRY (_Intervening_.) Come, come, it's nothing.... I have practised medicine longer than men have and know a little more about it. Do not be uneasy; there is nothing to fear; I will undertake to cure her.... But we are wasting precious time, the night is passing and we shall get nothing done.... (_To_ THE GIRLS.) Come, dears, go and dress yourselves; your cloaks are waiting for you and everything is ready. Just follow Light; she will advise you.... We will meet in the great ballroom of the palace.... (THE GIRLS _go out, preceded by_ LIGHT. _To_ DESTINY.) You too, Destiny, follow Light; you want another costume. You can't go as you are. One must not be conspicuous, especially at this moment.... (DESTINY _obeys, grudgingly_.) I don't quite know how to dress the fellow. However, Light will think of something: she has more imagination than I.... Let's see to the little patient. She's better.... (_Helping her to rise_.) There, there.... Sit down on this bench.... No?... You prefer to stand up?... As you please: in that case, lean against the column, for the walls will soon disappear.... Now that we are alone, Tyltyl, will you tell me at last, between ourselves, who that girl is?... TYLTYL But, ma'am, I don't know at all.... THE FAIRY You must make an effort.... She can't live unless you remember who she is.... It's a great responsibility. TYLTYL But it's not my fault.... I've done what I could; I can't make it out. THE FAIRY So much the worse for you. I can't understand it either.... Come, get dressed. Here's the little jacket which Light brought you.... And now, with one stroke of the wand, we will enter the ballroom and see what your little friends have made of themselves. (_She touches the panels of the closet, which disappear_.) SCENE V _A Ballroom in the Fairy's Palace_ (_All that remains standing is the columns and aisles forming the portico of an immense, luminous room, which might have been hewn and carved out of a mountain of amber. Under the dazzling arches_ THE SIX GIRLS _move about, arrayed in resplendent, trailing gowns, with their feet encased in gilt sandals, their hair hanging loose and their hands filled with flowers. They joyously beckon to_ TYLTYL, _who, at first dumbfounded, rushes towards them and joins in their games and dances_. THE VEILED GIRL _alone stands on one side, leaning against the column_.) THE FAIRY (_Observing_ DESTINY, _draped in a long black cape, with a broad-brimmed Spanish sombrero on his head_.) I say, there's Destiny!... She has dressed him like the villain in a play!... (_Clapping her hands_.) Come, children, it is time to be starting.... All this doesn't count: the real work is about to begin.... CURTAIN