Act 2/Scene 3 Flashcards
(after HE WAS TALL)
Madame: When I left this house in my carriage, I was quite convinced my daughter was going to be queen and I would never have to come back here to this. And now, well, I’m back here to this.
Ella: Was the ball a disappointment, Madame?
Madame: The Prince, despite his being well born, and raised with great care by our Lord Protector, showed the most appalling manners. Appalling! He spent the entire evening talking and dancing with some little nobody.
Charlotte: The Prince has fallen head over heels for someone else. If he keeps this up, I may not want to go out with him!
Madame: What was going on in His Royal Highness’s thick skull?
Charlotte: The way he looked at her. With respect! I hope no man ever looks at me that way.
Madame: If that woman had any morality or sense of what’s right in this world, she would not have appeared at the ball at all.
Gabrielle: …arriving at the ball and meeting the man of her dreams?
Madame: I cannot, for my mind has no place for the puerile or rank.
Charlotte: Why did the girl run away? My feeling is that up close the girl was physically unappealing.
Madame: To bed, my lovely daughters. Cinderella, you stay here and clean up this pigsty of a parlor. Why is there a pumpkin on the table? It makes no design sense.
