Act 1, Scene 6 Flashcards
I would expect such behavior to remain outside of our retreat…
Yes, I’m sure…
Now to which of you does the castle belong.
Oh. To none of us, Mrs. Graves. We haven’t even seen it. It was advertised. Mrs. Arnott and I have rented it.
…It appears most agreeable.
There’s a private beach, and olive groves and bushels and bushels of wisteria.
I am very fond of wisteria. THe house at box hill was covered with it. I remember once my father and i…
your father lived at box hill, mrs. graves?
My father traveled amoung all the great men. carlyle, arnold, tennyson…
Tennyson, rose, imagine
as I was saying
Is that a photograph of tennyson, Mrs. Graves?
No. That is a photo of…..
He would often tell my father…
Did you know keats, Mrs. Graves?
Keats?!
Yes. John Keats. The poet.
I am aware. I did not know Keats Mrs. Wilton
Oh.
And if that is the direction in which you are heading, I regret to inform you that I was also unaquainted with shakespeare.
Of course. It’s just that the immortals seem so alive, don’t they. One forgets sometimes that they are dead.
Many for quite some time.
it’s just that I thought I saw keaths the other day
Lotty!
Saw keats!?
Yes. Crossing the street in Hampstead, in front of his house.
Mrs. Graves…
But then I suppose it was his ghost. Naturally.
…bank of England…
I See.
Is the large portrait of your father, Mrs. Graves?
Yes. That is himself. But we were speaking of references.
And the other portrait is your mother?
