TYLTYL and MYTYL (_running up gaily to kiss their father_) Hullo, daddy!... It's daddy!... Good-morning, daddy!... Have you had plenty of work this year?... DADDY TYL Well, what's the matter?... They don't look ill; they look very well.... MUMMY TYL (_weeping_) You can't trust their looks.... It will be as with the others.... They looked quite well also to the end; and then God took them.... I don't know what's the matter with them.... I put them to bed quite quietly last night; and this morning, when they woke up, everything was wrong.... They don't know what they're saying; they talk about a journey.... They have seen Light and grandad and granny, who are dead, but who are quite well.... TYLTYL But grandad still has his wooden leg.... MYTYL And granny her rheumatics.... MUMMY TYL Do you hear?... Run and fetch the doctor!... DADDY TYL Why, no, no.... They are not dead yet.... Come, let us look into this.... (_A knock at the front door_.) Come in!... (_Enter_ NEIGHBOUR BERLINGOT, _a little old woman resembling the_ FAIRY _in_ ACT I _and leaning on a stick_.) THE NEIGHBOUR Good-morning and a Merry Christmas to you all!... TYLTYL It's the Fairy Bérylune!... THE NEIGHBOUR I have come to ask for a bit of fire for my Christmas stew.... It's very chilly this morning.... Good-morning, children, how are you?... TYLTYL Fairy Bérylune, I could not find the Blue Bird.... THE NEIGHBOUR What is he saying?... MUMMY TYL Don't ask me, Madame Berlingot.... They don't know what they are saying.... They have been like that since they woke up.... They must have eaten something that wasn't good.... THE NEIGHBOUR Why, Tyltyl, don't you remember Goody Berlingot, your Neighbour Berlingot?... TYLTYL Why, yes, ma'am.... You are the Fairy Bérylune.... You're not angry with us?... THE NEIGHBOUR Béry... what? Goodness gracious me!... TYLTYL Bérylune. THE NEIGHBOUR Berlingot, you mean Berlingot.... TYLTYL Bérylune or Berlingot, as you please, ma'am.... But Mytyl knows.... MUMMY TYL That's the worst of it, that Mytyl also.... DADDY TYL Pooh, pooh!... That will soon go; I will give them a smack or two.... THE NEIGHBOUR Don't; It's not worth while.... I know all about it; it's only a little fit of dreaming.... They must have slept in the moonbeams.... My little girl, who is very ill, is often like that.... MUMMY TYL By the way, how is your little girl?... THE NEIGHBOUR Only so-so.... She can't get up.... The doctor says that it's her nerves.... I know what would cure her, for all that. She was asking me for it only this morning, for her Christmas box; it's a notion she has... MUMMY TYL Yes, I know; it's Tyltyl's bird.... Well, Tyltyl, aren't you going to give it at last to that poor little thing?... TYLTYL What, mummy?... MUMMY TYL Your bird.... It's no use to you.... You don't even look at it now.... And she has been dying to have it for ever so long!...