Act 1-3 Daphne Flashcards
Mon: I shall be in the office Garry.
Thank you Monica.
Mon: Don’t forget…going to take you to Africa.
No, Monica.
Mon: appointment to Mr. Roland Maule.
I shall remember.
Daph: Goodbye. Garry! Oh Garry!
Darling.
I’m ridiculously happy.
I’m so glad darling.
Are you?
Happy?
Yes.
There’s something awfully sad about happiness, isn’t there?
What a funny thing to say.
It wasn’t meant to be funny.
I’ve been in love with you for such a long time.
Don’t - don’t say that!
Why? What’s the matter?
Don’t love me too much, Daphne! Promise me you won’t. No good can come of loving anyone like me - I’m not worthy of it, really I’m not.
You’re more worthy of it than anybody in the whole world.
Foolish child.
I’m not a child. I’m twenty-one.
Twenty-one! If only I were younger - if only you were older -
What does age matter when people love each other?
I wonder how tragically often that has been said?
It’s true.
Look at me Daphne. Look at me kindly, clearly, and honestly - look at the lines on my face - look at my eyes!
You’re not so very old.
I didn’t say I was so very old, Daphne, I merely said look at me. As a matter of fact, I’m only just - forty.
What’s forty?
Too old for twenty-one.
You mean you don’t love me?
I don’t mean any such thing.
Do you love me? Say it - do you?
Of course I do.
Say it!
I love you, Daphne.
Oh, darling -
But this is goodbye!
Goodbye? But Garry -
It must be. Not for my sake, my dear, but for yours. Last night - suddenly- a spark was struck! The flamed burned brightly - that was happiness! - Something to be remembered always -
You’re different this morning - you don’t love me - you didn’t mean any of the things you said last night.
Youth never understands. That’s what’s so absolutely awful about Youth - it never, never understands.
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Listen to me, my dearest. You’re not… You’re in… Last night… I can see it… but I have learned one bitter lesson in my life and that lesson is to be able too say goodbye -
But Garry -
Let me go on - Ssh! “We meet not… One moment has bound the free.”
But, Gary -
Quiet! “That moment…” There now, that was Shelley. Don’t you think it’s beautiful?
Yes, but -
There was nothing Shelly didn’t know about love, not a thing! All the sadness, all the joy, all the unbearable pain -
Yes, but I don’t see why love should be so miserable.
That’s because you’re young, my sweet - young and eager and greedy for life -
You said last night that now that you had found me you would never let me go.
That was perfectly true. I shall never let you go, You shall be here in my heart forever.
Oh, Garry -
Don’t cry - please, please don’t cry - I can’t bear it -
How can you say I’m in love with an illusion and not the real you at all -
Because it’s true.
It isn’t - it isn’t - it was the real you last night, you weren’t on the stage - you weren’t acting -
I’m always acting - watching myself go by - that’s what’s so horrible.
I could help you if only you’d let me,
Listen, my dear. It isn’t that I don’t love you, I do.
Oh, Garry.
But my life is not my own - I belong to my work. In two weeks time I am going away to Africa with a repertory of six plays - do you understand what that means? The work, the drudgery, the nerve-strain? When I come back, IF I come back, I shall look at you again and I shall know - in the first glance - whether you have waited for m or not - please come here now and kiss me - Once, just once and then go -
(Kiss) Oh, Garry - oh, darling -
Au revoir, my sweet - not goodbye - just au revoir.
