- Pompadour: [after Babar's children become lost in the jungle fog] Oh, I'm to blame for all of this!
- Cornélius: [Shocked] Whatever do you mean?
- Pompadour: I tried to gather a crack search party, and I failed!
- Cornélius: Not so, Pompadour! You did everything you could!
- Pompadour: Not enough, I'm afraid... but I don't intend to give up! I'll turn on all the lights in the palace! 'Keep the home fires burning', they say! The children will come home!
- Pompadour: [after seeing his assistant, Troubadour, yawning] Just another hour or so Troubadour, then we can all go to sleep!
- Cornélius: If we finish these plans tonight, then we can start building our shelter for the homeless tomorrow morning.
- Pompadour: And not a moment too soon for those poor jungle elephants, right Troubadour... Troubadour?
- [Troubadour has fallen asleep listening to them]