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Maria slips her hand under Geraldine's arm and holds the position until the performance ends. As a finale, all the children gather onstage to lead the audience in Christmas songs: Jingle Bells, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Feliz Navidad. Eileen urges Michael to sing, but he only gazes at the other children, who shout the songs at the top of their voices and inspire the audience, now packed to standing room, to do the same. Geraldine, Mary Paul, Doug, Maria, John, all sing. Mallory enters at a side door, looking dazed and disheveled. He searches the crowd, sees Eileen waving, does not return her wave but makes his way to her.
Mallory sits beside Eileen without a gesture of greeting, and Michael hops aboard his lap. The three of them huddle together as the children and the audience come to Feliz Navidad, moving smoothly between Spanish and English:
Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad
Feliz Navidad, prospero ano y Felicidad.
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas.
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas
From the bottom of my heart.
Mallory and Eileen add their voices to the roar, tilt instinctively toward each other, and seem not to notice that Michael is singing.