Upon my word, I don't know. Each of them will do what occurs to her: one will choose the window, another the roof, the wall, the cellar or the chimney ... one or two even will come in by the door; but those are the least interesting: they lack imagination.... However, we shall see when the time comes. We've talked enough; time presses; come, turn the sapphire.... TYLTYL (_Trying to gain time, in order to conceal his terror_.) Which way round am I to turn it? THE FAIRY The same as with the diamond, from right to left.... (_Looking at_ TYLTYL.) Goodness me, how pale you are!... What has come over you? Surely you're not afraid?... TYLTYL Not at all, on the contrary.... I always look like this.... THE FAIRY You needn't be ashamed to admit it: this is a very serious moment; and, if men knew what happened, in this life and all the others, when they made a bad choice, they'd never dare to get married at all.... But what you're trying to do is to put off the dreadful moment; and I'm a goose to be listening to you.... Come, turn the sapphire! (TYLTYL _turns the sapphire. No sooner has he done so than the cottage is filled with a supernatural light, which invests all things with beauty, purity and a transcendent joy. A window opens noiselessly and a young girl, dressed like a wood-cutter and carrying a hatchet in her hand, steps into the room and runs up and kisses_ TYLTYL.) THE GIRL Good evening, Tyltyl!... You called me: here I am!... TYLTYL Hullo, it's Milette!... (_To_ THE FAIRY.) This is Milette, my cousin, the daughter of Feltree, the wood-cutter.... We see each other sometimes in the forest.... (_To_ MILETTE.) So you loved me?... You never said so!... MILETTE Do people say such things in a life where everything is forbidden? Need they say them?... But I knew at once and from the first that you loved me; and so did I love you.... It was one evening when you went past with your father. You were carrying a bundle of laurel-twigs. You didn't know my name then and said, "Good evening," and looked into my eyes. I answered, "Good night," and cast my eyes down; but I had that look of yours in my heart; and, since then, without leaving home, I've been here very often; but you didn't seem to know.... TYLTYL No, no, it's I who every evening after sunset used to go to you. I was never at home. Mummy would ask, "What are you thinking of, Tyltyl?" And daddy answered, "He's up in the moon again!" I wasn't in the moon at all, I was with you; but you paid no attention: you were seeing to the fire, or the soup, or the rabbits; you were cutting chips or tying up bundles, as if no one had entered your cottage.... MILETTE No, I was here and kissing you all the time; but you didn't kiss me.... TYLTYL I tell you it was I who was always kissing you; I tell you it was you who were never there.... MILETTE