Notes / Burnt Norton / V Echo The hidden laughter Burnt Norton V · Line 35 · the hidden laughter The children in the foliage return from the first movement. Their laughter frames Burnt Norton, and it will frame the whole sequence: the final lines of Little Gidding hear the children in the apple-tree again. Interpretive Garden Time See also Hidden children Read in context → Previous A shaft of sunlight Next Quick now, here, now, always