(_Behind the door._) Don't trouble, don't trouble!... It's only me!... How do you do? (_The door has opened of its own accord and_ THE FAIRY BÉRYLUNE _enters under the guise of an old woman, as in the first scene of the Blue Bird. At the same time the room is filled with a strange brightness, which remains after the door is closed again_.) TYLTYL (_In surprise_.) Who are you? THE FAIRY Don't you know me? Why, Tyltyl, it's hardly seven years since we said good-bye to each other! TYLTYL (_Bewildered and vainly searching his memory_.) Yes, yes, I remember ... and I know what you mean.... THE FAIRY Yes, but you don't quite grasp who I am and you don't remember anything at all. You haven't changed, I see: just the same careless, ungrateful, wool-gathering little fellow that you always were!... But you have grown taller and stronger, my lad, and quite handsome! If I were not a fairy, I should never have known you! Yes, really quite handsome!... But are you aware of it? It doesn't seem to have occurred to you! TYLTYL We only had one tiny looking-glass in the house, about as big as your hand. Mytyl took it and keeps it in her room. THE FAIRY So Mytyl has a room of her own now? TYLTYL Yes, she sleeps next door, under the stairs, and I here, in the kitchen. Shall I wake her? THE FAIRY (_Growing suddenly and unreasonably angry, as on her former visit_.) There's no need to do anything of the sort!... I have nothing to do with her; her hour has not struck; and, when it does I shall be quite capable of finding her, without being shown the way as though I were blind!... In the meantime, I want nobody's advice.... TYLTYL (_In dismay_.) But ma'am, I didn't know.... THE FAIRY That will do.... (_Recovering her temper as suddenly as she lost it_.) By the way, how old are you? TYLTYL I shall be sixteen a fortnight after Epiphany. THE FAIRY (_Growing angry again_.) A fortnight after Epiphany!... What a way of reckoning!... And here am I without my almanack, having left it with Destiny last time I called on him, fifty years ago!... I don't know where I stand.... However, never mind: I'll make the calculation when we see him, for we shall have to get it exactly right.... And what have you been doing these seven years since we met? TYLTYL I have been working in the forest with daddy. THE FAIRY That means you've been helping him cut down trees. I don't like that very much. You call that working, do you? Ah, well, men evidently can't live without destroying the last things of beauty that remain on the earth!... So let's talk of something else.... (_Mysteriously_.) Can any one hear us? TYLTYL I don't think so. THE FAIRY (_Growing angry once more_.) It doesn't matter what you think, but whether you're sure. What I have to say is tremendously important ... and strictly private. Come here, quite close, so that I can whisper it.... Whom are you in love with? TYLTYL (_In amazement_.) Whom am I in love with? THE FAIRY