TYLTYL Oh, how nice it is to see you again!... It's so long, so long ago!... I must kiss you at once.... Again! Again! Again!... And how comfortable my bed is!... I am back at home!... MUMMY TYL What's the matter?... Why don't you wake up?... Don't tell me you're ill.... Let me see, show me your tongue.... Come, get up and dress.... TYLTYL Hullo, I've got my shirt on!... MUMMY TYL Of course you have.... Put on your breeches and your little jacket.... There they are, on the chair.... TYLTYL Is that what I did on the journey?... MUMMY TYL What journey?... TYLTYL Why, last year.... MUMMY TYL Last year?... TYLTYL Why, yes!...At Christmas, when I went away.... MUMMY TYL When you went away?... You haven't left the room.... I put you to bed last night, and here you are this morning.... Have you dreamed all that?... TYLTYL But you don't understand!... It was last year, when I went away with Mytyl, the Fairy, Light--how nice Light is!--Bread, Sugar, Water, Fire: they did nothing but quarrel!... You're not angry with me?... Did you feel very sad?... And what did daddy say?... I could not refuse... I left a note to explain.... MUMMY TYL What are you talking about?... For sure, either you're ill or else you're still asleep.... (_She gives him a friendly shake_.) There, wake up.... There, is that better?... TYLTYL But, mummy, I assure you.... It's you that's still asleep.... MUMMY TYL What! Still asleep, am I?... Why? I've been up since six o'clock.... I've finished all the cleaning and lit the fire.... TYLTYL But ask Mytyl if it's not true.... Oh, we have had such adventures!... MUMMY TYL Why Mytyl?... What do you mean?... TYLTYL She was with me.... We saw grandad and granny.... MUMMY TYL (_more and more bewildered_) Grandad and granny?... TYLTYL Yes, in the Land of Memory.... It was on our way.... They are dead, but they are quite well.... Granny made us a lovely plum-tart.... And then the little brothers--Robert, Jean and his top--and Madeleine and Pierrette and Pauline and Riquette, too.... MYTYL Riquette still goes about on all fours!... TYLTYL And Pauline still has a pimple on her nose.... MUMMY TYL Have you found the key of the cupboard where daddy hides his brandy bottle?... TYLTYL Does daddy hide a brandy bottle?... MUMMY TYL Certainly. One has to hide everything when one has little meddlesome good-for-nothings like you.... But come, out with it, confess that you took it.... I would rather it was that.... I sha'n't tell daddy.... I sha'n't beat you.... TYLTYL But, mummy, I don't know where it is.... MUMMY TYL Just walk in front of me, so that I may see if you can walk straight.... (TYLTYL _does so_) No, it's not that.... Dear heaven, what is the matter with them?... I shall lose them too, as I lost the others!... (_Suddenly mad with alarm, she calls out_) Daddy Tyl!... Come, quick! The children are ill!... (_Enter_ DADDY TYL, _very calmly, with an axe in his hand_.) DADDY TYL What is it?...