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Act 1- Scene 1 Flashcards

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RADIO:… particularly at points on the north and northeast coast of Scotland.

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Mrs. Barlow! Mrs. Barlow! (stage directions) Brr.. It’s Cold. (stage directions) It really does look nice- Oh! How stupid of Giles. Gosh!

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GILES: Mollie? Mollie? Mollie? Where are you?

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Doing all the work you brute

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GILES: Oh, there you are- leave it all to me. Shall I stoke up the Aga?

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Done.

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GILES: Hullo sweetheart. Your nose is cold.

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I’ve just come in.

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GILES; Why? Where have you been? Surely you’ve not been out in this weather?

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I had to go down to the village for some stuff I’d forgotten. Did you get the chicken netting?

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GILES: It wasn’t the right kind. I went on another dump but that wasn’t any good either. Practically a whole day wasted. My God, I’m half frozen. Car was skidding like anything. The snow’s coming down thick. What do you bet we’re not snowed up tomorrow?

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Oh dear, I do hope not. If only the pipes don’t freeze

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GILES: We’ll have to keep the central heating well stoked up. H’m, not too good- I wish they’d send the coke along. We’ve not got any too much.

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Oh! I do so want everything to go well at first. First impressions are so important.

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GILES: Is everything ready? Nobody’s arrived yet I suppose?

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No, thank goodness. I think everything’s in order. Mrs. Barlow’s hooked it early. Afraid of the weather I suppose.

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GILES: What a nuisance these daily women are. That leaves everything on your shoulders.

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AND yours! This is a partnership

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GILES: So long as you don’t ask me to cook

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No no, that’s my department. Anyway, we’ve got lots of tins in case we are snowed up… Oh Giles, do you think its going to be alright?

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GILES: Got cold feet, have you? Are you sorry now we didn’t sell the place when your aunt left it to you, instead of having this mad idea of running it as a guest house?

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No. I’m not. I love it. And talking of a guest house, Just look at THAT

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GILES: Pretty good, what?

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It’s a disaster! Don’t you see? You’ve left out the “S”. Monkwell instead of Monkswell.

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GILES: Good lord, so I did. However did I come to do that? But it doesn’t really matter, does it? Monkwell is just as good a name.

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You’re in disgrace. Go and stoke up the central heating.

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GILES: Across that icy yard! Ugh! Shall I bank it up for the night now?

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No, you don’t do that until ten or eleven o’clock at night.

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GILES: How appalling!

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Hurry up. Someone may arrive any minute now.

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GILES: You’ve got all the rooms worked out?

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Yes. Mrs. Boyle, Front Fourposter Room. Major Metcalf, Blue Room. Miss Casewell, East Room. Mr. Wren, Oak Room.

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GILES: I wonder what all these people will be like. Oughtn’t we have got rent in advance?

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Oh no, I don’t think so.

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GILES: We’re rather mugs at this game.

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They bring luggage. If they don’t pay we hang on to their luggage. It’s quite simple.

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GILES:… Their luggage might be just bricks wrapped up in newspaper and where should we be then?

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They all wrote from very good addresses

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GILES: That’s what servants with forged references do. Some of these people may be criminals hiding from the police.

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I don’t care, as long as they pay us seven guineas every week.

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RADIO:… The heavy snow is expected to continue, and throughout the country…

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How do you do?

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WREN:Are you Mrs. Ralston? How delightful! My name’s Wren.

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How do you do Mr. Wren

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WREN:… I’m simply going to love this place. Have you got any wax flowers or birds of paradise?

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I’m afraid not.

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WREN: What a pity! Well, what about a sideboard? A purple plummy mahogany sideboard with great solid carved fruits on it?

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Yes we have. In the dining room

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WREN: In here? I must see it

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Do come and warm yourself

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WREN:… little tables just spoil the effect.

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We thought guests would prefer them- this is my husband.

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GILES: I’ll take your suitcase upstairs for you. Oak Room, did you say?

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Yes

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WREN: I don’t believe your husband is going to like me. How long have you been married? Are you very much in love?

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We’ve been married just a year. Perhaps you’d like to go up and see your room?

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WREN:.. I mean , I think people are so madly interesting, don’t you?

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Well, I suppose some are and, some are not

30
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WREN:…. For instance, you don’t know what I’m thinking about now, do you?

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Not in the least. Biscuit?

31
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WREN:… It comes out, on the canvas.

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Are you a painter?

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WREN: and really very beautiful

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Oh, don’t be absurd

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WREN: There’s something very boorish about English husbands

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Come up and see your room

34
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WREN: Shall I?

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(to Giles) Could you stoke up the hot water boiler?

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BOYLE: … Most offhand and casual I must say.

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I’m so sorry, I…

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BOYLE: Mrs. Ralston?

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Yes, I…

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BOYLE: You’re very young.

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Young?

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BOYLE: To be running an establishment of this kind. You can’t have had much experience.

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There has to be a beginning for everything, hasn’t there?

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BOYLE: I see. Quite inexperienced. An old house. I hope you haven’t got dry rot.

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Certainly not!

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BOYLE: A lot of people don’t know they have got dry rot until it’s too late to do anything about it.

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The house is in perfect condition.

41
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GILES: I’ll take these up. Which rooms did you say? Blue room and the Rose room?

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No- I put Mr. Wren in the Rose room. He liked the fourposter so much. So it’s Mrs. Boyle in the Oak room and Major Metcalf in the Blue room.

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BOYLE: Do you have much servant difficulty here?

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We have quite a good local woman who comes in from the village?

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BOYLE: And what indoor staff

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No indoor staff. Just us.

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BOYLE: Indeed. I understood this was a guest house in full running order.

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We’re only just starting.

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BOYLE:… May I ask if I am the only guest- besides Major Metcalf, that is?

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Oh no, there are several here.

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BOYLE: This weather, too. A blizzard- no less- all very unfortunate.

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But we couldn’t very well foresee the weather!

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WREN: … That’s why children like them.

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May I introduce Mr. Wren- Mrs. Boyle.

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BOYLE: Perhaps you will take me up to my bedroom, Mrs. Ralston?

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Certainly Mrs. Boyle. (to Giles) Darling you were wonderful.

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CASEWELL: How d’you do?

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It’s an awful night. Would you like to come up to your room? The water’s hot if you’d like a bath.

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CASEWELL: You’re right. I would.

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(to GIles) I must hurry out to the kitchen and get on with things. Major Metcalf is very nice. He won’t be difficult. It’s Mrs. Boyle really frightens me. We must have a nice dinner. I was thinking opening two tins of minced beef and cereal and a tin of peas, and mashing the potatoes. And theres stewed figs and custard. DO you think that will be all right?

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WREN: Why not an omelette? You’ve got eggs, haven’t you?

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Oh yes, we’ve got plenty of eggs. We keep lots of fowls. They don’t lay as well as they should but we’ve put down a lot of eggs.

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WREN:.. and I daresay I shall have an inspiration.

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Come on. (to Giles) Isn’t he sweet? He’s put on an apron and he’s getting all the things together. He says leave it all to him and don’t come back for half an hour. If our guests want to do the cooking themselves, it will save a lot of trouble.

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GILES: Why did you give him the best room?

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I told you, he liked the fourposter.

54
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GILES: He liked the fourposter. Twerp!

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Giles!

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GILES: I’ve got no use for that kind. You didn’t handle his suitcase, I did.

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Had it got bricks in it?

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GILES: It was no weight at all. If you ask me there was nothing inside it. He’s probably one of those young men who go about bilking hotel keepers.

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I don’t believe it. I like him. (pause) I think Miss Casewell is rather peculiar, don’t you?

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GILES: Terrible female, if she is a female.

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It seems very hard that all our guests should be either unpleasant or odd. Anyway, I think Major Metcalf’s all right, don’t you?

58
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GILES: Probably drinks!

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Oh, do you think so?

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GILES: No, I don’t. I was just feeling rather depressed. Well, at any rate we know the worst now. They’ve all arrived. door bell

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Who can that be?

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GILES: Probably the Culver street muderer.

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Don’t!

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GILES: Oh yes…

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It’s a rather small one, I’m afraid.

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PARAVICINI: Naturally- naturally- you have other guests.

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We’ve only just opened this place as a guest house today, and so we’re- we’re rather new at it.

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PARAVICINI: …. Yes, all that I need.

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You’d better get thoroughly warm. I’ll see about your room. I’m afraid it’s a rather cold room because it faces north, but all the other’s are occupied.

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PARAVICINI: You have several guests then?

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There’s Mrs. Boyle and Major Metcalf and Miss Casewell, and a young man called Christopher Wren- and now- you.

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PARAVICINI: … My name, by the way, is Paravicini.

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Oh yes. Ours is Ralston.

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