S3: Jack, Jack / Spells | after "A Very Nice Prince (Reprise)" -> "It Takes Two"

[after “Agony”] JACK'S MOTHER (annoyed) I hope he didn't go up that beanstalk again. Quit while you're ahead, I say. (begins to EXIT) Jack ... ! Jack ... !

(BAKER ENTERS, looking for MILKY-WHITE) Moo ... Moo ...

MYSTERIOUS MAN Moo! Looking for your cow?

Where did you find her? … Hello?

[after “A Very Nice Prince Reprise”] BAKER'S WIFE Cow? (FLORINDA and LUCINDA giggle)

(BAKER runs ONSTAGE with MILKY-WHITE. THEY are both out of breath, holding up an ear of corn to STEPMOTHER, FLORINDA and LUCINDA)

Please, let me just compare this color with that of your own.

STEPMOTHER Over there!

(to wife) I thought you were returning home. (angry) I've had no luck.

BAKER'S WIFE You've the cow!

Yes. I've the cow. I've only two of the four.

BAKER'S WIFE Three.

Two!

BAKER'S WIFE (pulls the hair from her pocket) Three! Compare this to your corn.

Where did you find it?

BAKER'S WIFE (false modesty) I pulled it from a maiden in a tower.

(looking at hair) Three!

BAKER'S WIFE And I almost had the fourth, but she got away.

We've one entire day left. Surely we can locate the slipper by then.

BAKER'S WIFE We? You mean you'll allow me to stay?

BAKER (embarrassed) Well ... perhaps it will take the two of us to get this child. [start of #28 “It Takes Two”]