NURSE
Well, well, well, fancy that now! Why, you might almost
have seen them at it, the way you talk.
MARIGOLD
I have.
NURSE
Never!
MARIGOLD
Yes. One morning. I came out here early, oh, ever so early.
Nobody was up; you weren't up, and the birds weren't up and even the sun wasn't up. And everything was so still that there was no sound in all the world, except just the wind in the willows, whispering ever so gently.
NURSE (professionally)
What your poor mother would have said. (Eagerly) Well, and what happened?
MARIGOLD
I don't know. I sat there and waited for everything to wake up, and then by and by I heard something, music, very thin and clear and far off. And then, well then there was the sun, and it was daylight, and it seemed as if I had just woken up myself. But it was all different. Something had happened. I didn't know what, but I seemed to understand more than I did before—to have been with them.
NURSE
Mr. Toad and Mr. Mole and all them?
