Act 1-3 Daphne

Question 1

Mon: I shall be in the office Garry.

Answer 1

Thank you Monica.

Question 2

Mon: Don’t forget…going to take you to Africa.

Answer 2

No, Monica.

Question 3

Mon: appointment to Mr. Roland Maule.

Answer 3

I shall remember.

Question 4

Daph: Goodbye. Garry! Oh Garry!

Answer 4

Darling.

Question 5

I’m ridiculously happy.

Answer 5

I’m so glad darling.

Question 6

Are you?

Answer 6

Happy?

Question 7

Yes.

Answer 7

There’s something awfully sad about happiness, isn’t there?

Question 8

What a funny thing to say.

Answer 8

It wasn’t meant to be funny.

Question 9

I’ve been in love with you for such a long time.

Answer 9

Don’t - don’t say that!

Question 10

Why? What’s the matter?

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

You’re more worthy of it than anybody in the whole world.

Answer 11

Foolish child.

Question 12

I’m not a child. I’m twenty-one.

Answer 12

Twenty-one! If only I were younger - if only you were older -

Question 13

What does age matter when people love each other?

Answer 13

I wonder how tragically often that has been said?

Question 14

It’s true.

Answer 14

Look at me Daphne. Look at me kindly, clearly, and honestly - look at the lines on my face - look at my eyes!

Question 15

You’re not so very old.

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

What’s forty?

Answer 16

Too old for twenty-one.

Question 17

You mean you don’t love me?

Answer 17

I don’t mean any such thing.

Question 18

Do you love me? Say it - do you?

Answer 18

Of course I do.

Question 19

Say it!

Answer 19

I love you, Daphne.

Question 20

Oh, darling -

Answer 20

But this is goodbye!

Question 21

Goodbye? But Garry -

Answer 21

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 -

Question 22

You’re different this morning - you don’t love me - you didn’t mean any of the things you said last night.

Answer 22

Youth never understands. That’s what’s so absolutely awful about Youth - it never, never understands.

Question 23

I don’t know what you’re talking about.

Answer 23

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 -

Question 24

But Garry -

Answer 24

Let me go on - Ssh! “We meet not… One moment has bound the free.”

Question 25

But, Gary -

Answer 25

Quiet! “That moment…” There now, that was Shelley. Don’t you think it’s beautiful?

Question 26

Yes, but -

Answer 26

There was nothing Shelly didn’t know about love, not a thing! All the sadness, all the joy, all the unbearable pain -

Question 27

Yes, but I don’t see why love should be so miserable.

Answer 27

That’s because you’re young, my sweet - young and eager and greedy for life -

Question 28

You said last night that now that you had found me you would never let me go.

Answer 28

That was perfectly true. I shall never let you go, You shall be here in my heart forever.

Question 29

Oh, Garry -

Answer 29

Don’t cry - please, please don’t cry - I can’t bear it -

Question 30

How can you say I’m in love with an illusion and not the real you at all -

Answer 30

Because it’s true.

Question 31

It isn’t - it isn’t - it was the real you last night, you weren’t on the stage - you weren’t acting -

Answer 31

I’m always acting - watching myself go by - that’s what’s so horrible.

Question 32

I could help you if only you’d let me,

Answer 32

Listen, my dear. It isn’t that I don’t love you, I do.

Question 33

Oh, Garry.

Answer 33

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 -

Question 34

(Kiss) Oh, Garry - oh, darling -

Answer 34

Au revoir, my sweet - not goodbye - just au revoir.