Act 2, Scene 4

Question 1

First Line

Answer 1

There you are. We’re having a lovely time inside. What’s the matter, Caroline?

Question 2

I was looking for ghosts.

Answer 2

They’re everywhere, aren’t they?

Question 3

Yes.

Answer 3

Mr. Wilding was asking after you.

Question 4

Mr. Wilding is very charming. As is your Mr. Wilton.

Answer 4

Thank you, Caroline. I should have never gotten him started on that piano, though.

Question 5

He plays beautifully.

Answer 5

He does, doesn’t he?

Question 6

Did you see the full moon?

Answer 6

Somehow everything seems full tonight.

Question 7

It’s love.

Answer 7

I suppose it is.

Question 8

The whole place reeks of it. I’ll be leaving tomorrow.

Answer 8

No, Caroline.

Question 9

Rose: Ladies. There’s coffee if you’d like. Oh! a full moon! Beautiful!
Caroline: It must be great comfort to be so adored, Mrs. Arnott.
Rose: Oh?
Caroline: You and your husband have been making eyes all evening.
Rose: We have, haven’t we? It’s been so long since Frederick has read his poetry.

Answer 9

It’s wonderful, Rose.

Question 10

Rose: Even Mrs. Graves thought so!
Caroline: I really am so happy for you, Rose.

Answer 10

Caroline is lonely, Rose.

Question 11

Caroline: Lotty!

Answer 11

I hadn’t seen it until now, but look.

Question 12

Rose: We were sisters all along then, Caroline.
Frederick: Is the party moving out here now?

Answer 12

Just admiring the view, Mr. Arnott.

Question 13

F: Ah!
Rose: I’m surprised Mrs. Graves let you away.

Answer 13

Your poetry is lovely.

Question 14

Really?

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

F: No.
Rose: Don’t be modest, Frederick.
F: It’s wonderful to see you like this, rose.
Rose: you as well
….
Caroline: Rose, you should show your husband the lower garden. In the moonlight it will be extraordinary.

Answer 15

Yes!

Question 16

….

Rose: Very well. Lotty, tomorrow you must take Caroline boating.

Answer 16

Well, of course!

Question 17

Caroline: No. I don’t think…
Rose: You’ll like that, Caroline. I see it! All’italia!

Answer 17

All’Italia, rose!

Question 18

Caroline: All’Italia! Is this really an enchanted place, Lotty?

Answer 18

Perhaps. You’ll have to stay and find out.

Question 19

Mellersh: You know, you might find this a bit fantastic, but one bears a striking resemblance to my wife.

Answer 19

Mellersh!

Question 20

Caroline: I was thinking what a wonderful host you’ve been, Mr. Wilding.

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 21

Wilding: But i’ve already packed my things, so that Mr. Wilton may have the spare room tonight.
Mellersh: The spare room?

Answer 21

Oh….Oh, no, Mr. Wilding. Mr. Wilton shall share my room, of course.

Question 22

Well, then, I would be honored

W: The spare room, Charlotte?

Answer 22

What of Kate Lumley, Mrs. Graves? Have you written?

Question 23

Mrs. G: Kate Lumley? Oh no, no. what kate lumley would make of macaroni alone! I can but wonder. Mr. Wilding, have you told Lady Caroline the story of the acacia?
W: Well, no.

Answer 23

It’s a lovely story, Caroline.

Question 24

Mrs. G: There. That’s better.

Answer 24

Mrs. Graves. Perhasp you would read to us from the works of some of your great friends.

Question 25

Mellersh: But surely their wisdom…

Answer 25

and beauty…

Question 26

Costanza: Thee nuts

Answer 26

Costanza!

Question 27

Costanza: Marvelous! (Exits)

Answer 27

What an enchanted night, Mellersh.

Question 28

It has indeed been quite nice, my dear. Have you been to our room this evening?

Answer 28

Not since dinner, why?

Question 29

Someone has decorated it from floor to ceiling with flowers.

Answer 29

really?

Question 30

Gave me quite a fright.

Answer 30

Mellersh! Look!

Question 31

What?

Answer 31

There! The Roses are lovemaking

Question 32

The roses?

Answer 32

The Arnotts. Is Mrs. Arnott familiar to you, Mellersh?

Question 33

Mrs. Arnott? No.

Answer 33

From church. She’s our disappointed Madonna.

Question 34

Is she? Well, fancy, I don’t recall her being so attractive.

Answer 34

She’s bloomed again. And there go the Carolines.

Question 35

Really, Charlotte.

Answer 35

Very well, Mellersh. The Wildings, then. And I’d wager we’d find Mrs. Graves’ stick planted somewhere in the garden.

Question 36

Planted?

Answer 36

I’m sorry, Mellersh, but I see it. Case closed, Mellersh.

Question 37

I thought i’d lost you, my dear.

Answer 37

Sometimes one just has to step back a bit. Your words, Mellersh.

Question 38

Really?

Answer 38

It’s just a shame this all has to end. What could possibly follow such an enchanted April?

Question 39

I should think…an enchanted May! (kiss) I should go see to Mrs. Graves. (kiss) Come in soon.

Answer 39

To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine…

Not long after that evening, the wisteria at san salvatore gave way, and, through a loss, the castle now dressed itself in triumphant white.

There were white stocks and white pinks and white banksia roses, syringa and jessamine, and, above all, the crowning glory of Mr. Wilding’s acacia.

A season had passed, and would pass again. And what I see now is that, enchantment aside, what had really been handed down that month was…a lesson in gardening.

The wisteria would return the following April. We all would, in fact. And there would be a wedding, and a new child, and Kate Lumley. But that first April we had just planted our futures. And, on our final day, as we reached the bottom of the hill and passed through the castle’s gates, a great warm wind blew through and against our backs as if to blow away our befores forever now that our afters had begun. And with the wind cam all the scents of San Salvatore. …The gardens, and the sea, cinnamon and macaroni.

And dancing among them, white blossoms! Breaking free! Falling like…rain!