AMAL. Oh, wait a little longer; I do like it so!
SUDHA. Ah, well--now don't you be naughty. Be good and sit
still and on my way back home with the flowers I'll come and talk
with you.
AMAL. And you'll let me have a flower then?
SUDHA. No, how can I? It has to be paid for.
AMAL. I'll pay when I grow up--before I leave to look for work
out on the other side of that stream there.
SUDHA. Very well, then.
AMAL. And you'll come back when you have your flowers?
SUDHA. I will.
AMAL. You will, really?
SUDHA. Yes, I will.
AMAL. You won't forget me? I am Amal, remember that.
SUDHA. I won't forget you, you'll see. [Exit]
[A TROOP OF BOYS enter]
AMAL. Say, brothers, where are you all off to? Stop here a
little.
BOYS. We're off to play.
AMAL. What will you play at, brothers?
BOYS. We'll play at being ploughmen.
FIRST BOY [Showing a stick] This is our ploughshare.
SECOND BOY. We two are the pair of oxen.
AMAL. And you're going to play the whole day?
BOYS. Yes, all day long.
AMAL. And you'll come back home in the evening by the road along
the river bank?
BOYS. Yes.
AMAL. Do you pass our house on your way home?
BOYS. You come out to play with us, yes do.
AMAL. Doctor won't let me out.
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