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MARY
Why did you run away from home?
JONATHAN
I mustn't tell.
MARY
Oh, you won't tell anything!
JOHN III (_pointing to Hank_)
What did you say _he_ was, Ma'mselle?
MLLE. PERRAULT
He is a vagrant--
MARY AND JOHN III
What's a vagrant?
MARY
Ooh--
[_Puts up her hand to make a wish._
JOHN III
Aw, I'm not going to make a wish. Grandfather'll get it for me anyway if I want it.
MARY
Now, John Clay III--
[_Jonathan looks up quickly._
You always spoil things.
JONATHAN
Is that Mary Clay and John Clay?
MLLE. PERRAULT
Yes.
JONATHAN
They don't remember Jonathan, do they?
MLLE. PERRAULT
You mean Jonathan who ran away?
JONATHAN
Yes, ma'am.
MARY
Who's Jonathan?
JOHN III
He's David's friend. I know that. And he was very good.
MLLE. PERRAULT
What do you know about Jonathan?
JONATHAN
I knew him once--
MLLE. PERRAULT
He was a splendid little man! He could make such lovely songs.
JONATHAN
Do you remember the one he and Susan Sample made up?
MLLE. PERRAULT
Let's see--how did it go?
[_Hums a little--tries several folk tunes. The children edge up to Jonathan during this and manage to touch his back several times, each keeping count.
Jonathan smiles at them, thinking it's attention._
JONATHAN
No, it went this way.
[_He sings a little of the song and Mlle. Perrault joins him. As he stops singing she switches the time to waltz time and begins to sway to it. The music is taken up as by a dream-orchestra and Mlle. Perrault dances a very lovely little waltz._
JOHN III
