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Act I, Scene I Flashcards

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Lily Belle: We wanted to say goodbye to you, mother.

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I do not like thee, Lily Belle.
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this I know and know full well,
I do not like thee, Lily Belle.

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Dr. Emmett: …They would like to say goodbye to you, Mrs. Savage.

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The fireflies are out. How lovely. What makes the fireflies light up, Doctor? Are they mating?

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Dr. Emmett: I really couldn’t say, Mrs. Savage.

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I thought you’d know. Isn’t this a bug house?

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Dr. Emmett: This is “The Cloisters.” This is to be your home. I am Doctor Emmett.

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Wouldn’t it be fascinating if human beings glowed like fireflies while they were mating? Do you light up when you’re mating, Lily Belle? Lord knows you’re flighty.

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Titus: Surely, Mother, you’re not going to let us depart in an atmosphere of bitterness?

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Fifty needles
And fifty pins
And fifty dirty
Republi-kins.

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Ms. Willie: …You’ve added twenty more dirty Republi-kins.

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It’s a fault of mine–exaggeration. It’s stupid of me to try to irritate them like this – I just irritate myself. Well, I suppose it has to be exasperating now to be funny later.

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Ms. Willie: …It must have dropped out in the office. I’ll look as soon as they go.

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Don’t bother. It fell out last fall at the opera. I’d have found it but the usher was so nasty about my lighting matches during the Magic Fire music. You know what this is, don’t you?

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Ms. Willie: Suppose you tell me.

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It’s a teddy bear. Surely you’ve seen one before?

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Ms. Willie: Not that big.

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Do you know what I do with it?

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Ms. Willie: I couldn’t possibly guess.

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I sleep with it.

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Ms. Willie: Do you?

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Yes, I do you. Are you going to talk to me as if I were an imbecile, too?

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Ms. Willie: Here– here– we mustn’t be hostile.

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Of course not– you haven’t harmed me. Would you care to know why I sleep with it?

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Ms. Willie: If you’d care to tell me.

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I don’t care. And I’ll tell you. I get lonely. I’m too old to have a lover and too fastidious to sleep with a cat.

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Ms. Willie: Then, by all means, you must take it to bed with you. Would you care to take off your hat?

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If I’m going to spend the rest of my life here– I might as well.

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Ms. Willie: It’s a mighty saucy hat.

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A ten-cent piece of felt and three chicken feathers. One hundred and sixty-five dollars. Why economy should be expensive– I don’t know.

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Ms. Willie: It takes imagination.

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And the blood of pirates. But I wanted it. I wanted a hat like this since I was sixteen. For all the good it does me now. Well– I won’t need a hat here. Maybe you can use it for something– I’m not at all sure what.

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Ms. Willie: Oh, you’d better keep it. You might need it.

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Dear, dear! My hair looks like the matted end of a coconut.

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Ms. Willie: Oh, I don’t think so. It’s a heavenly color.

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You should have seen it last year. It was bright red. Then just to be different, I dyed it black with a white streak in the middle. I looked like nothing so much as a skunk. Finally, I just gave up and tinted it blue. It goes with everything.

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Ms. Willie: It’ll certainly go with your room. Wouldn’t you like to go up and get settled?

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Is it time to lock me up?

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Ms. Willie: I wouldn’t dream of locking you up. Did you bring a suitcase?

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My daughter did. I wasn’t consulted.

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Ms. Willie: I’ll get it and take you up. There’ll be time to explore your surroundings tomorrow. You can wait here.

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Alone?

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Ms. Willie: Of course.

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No handcuffs?

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Ms. Willie: We have the honor system.

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Honor system, indeed!

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Florence: Now, Fairy– you must stop frightening yourself!

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The poor thing’s quite harmless.

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Fairy: It won’t bite?

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It won’t shed, lay eggs, or bark. And– to the best of my knowledge – it’s unvexed by sex. It couldn’t be less trouble.

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Florence: … I’m Florence Williams.

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How do you do?

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Fairy: Say you love me.

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But– we’ve just met.

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Fairy: You don’t have to mean it. I feel wonderful when people say they love me.

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Well, I’m sure everyone loves you.

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Fairy: …Climate best by government test.

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Thank you.

30
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Florence: …And this is our Mrs. Paddy.

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How do you do, Mrs. Paddy?

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Mrs. Paddy: …gallstones, salt, and thunder.

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Why don’t you like rhubarb?

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Florence: Mrs. Paddy stopped talking about twenty years ago.

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Why?

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Fairy: But she is only giving up electricity for Lent.

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You’re a woman of wisdom, Mrs. Paddy. There’s only one thing wiser than saying very little and that’s saying nothing at all. Would you like to hold it?

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Fairy: She likes you.

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I like her.

35
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Jeff: Please excuse my left hand.

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Certainly. Is it a toothache?

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Florence: Jeff’s face is scarred and he likes to spare people.

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Well, you don’t need to spare me. I have to look at myself every morning.

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Jeff: Doctor Emmett refuses to let me wear a bandage.

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Well, we have to humor our doctors once in a while.

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Fairy: You won’t hurt her, will you?

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Gracious! Why should I?

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Jeff: You won’t object, will you?

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Well– what is John Thomas?

40
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Hannibal: Her son. What did you think?

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Here?

41
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Fairy: You like children, don’t you?

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Everyone’s but my own. How– old is he?

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Florence: Five.

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He’s big for five months.

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Florence: No. No. Five years.

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I meant years.

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Hannibal: Poor Florence isn’t well. We pretend for her sake. We hope you will, too.

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Oh– I will.

45
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Fairy: Tyrant!

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What is that?

46
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Jeff: …It’s “someone blundered.”

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Good night.

47
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Jeff: I didn’t hear you. We never say that. It means there’s no more.

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No more what?

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Hannibal: …He hasn’t quite recovered yet.

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Was his face badly burned?

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Fairy: … If I don’t apologize, she’ll sulk.

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I should think it would take a bit of doing to apologize to someone who won’t talk and sulks anyhow.

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Hannibal: …She’s happy at her easel.

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Is she an artist?

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Hannibal: I don’t know whether she is an artist or not. But she paints.

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Portraits?

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Fairy: …If you go to your room– don’t sleep!

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What did she mean about not sleeping?

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Hannibal: None of us sleeps here.

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Where do you sleep?

54
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Hannibal: …Could anything be simpler?

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Not– much.

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Ms. Willie: Did they all come in to meet you?

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Well– there was a Mrs. Paddy, and four others who have no business being here at their age.

56
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Ms. Willie: I quite agree.

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Do you think I belong here?

57
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Ms. Willie: We’re understaffed, Mrs. Savage. I’m kept too busy to have any opinions.

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I’d like to know what they told you about me.

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Ms. Willie: Was there anything to tell?

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Did they mention my Memorial Fund?

59
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Ms. Willie: Not to me.

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Then they probably told you that my husband’s death affected– my reason.

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Ms. Willie: That would be understandable.

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But untrue.

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Ms. Willie: Why– weren’t you happy with your husband?

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I married Jonathan when I was sixteen. I loved him from the moment I met him until the moment he died. Do you know what that meant?

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Ms. Willie: I think so.

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Well, you don’t, my dear. It meant that my only aim in life was to make him happy– to want what he wanted– to anticipate what would please him. And that meant that all the other things I ever wanted had to be forgotten.

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Ms. Willie: But surely you had no regrets.

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None. While he lived. But after he was gone– I remembered all the foolish things I’d always wanted to do.

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Ms. Willie: What had you always wanted to do?

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Things that would have shocked poor Jonathan.

65
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Ms. Willie: Such as dying your hair blue?

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That. And studying French. And ballet dancing– and people. As a girl, I was sure I could have been a great actress. So, with no responsibilities and time running out– I decided to be one.

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Ms. Willie: But don’t you think you waited too long, Mrs. Savage?

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I certainly do. Had I been a fool in my youth– no one would have noticed the difference in my old age.

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Ms. Willie: Oh, I’d never think of you as old, Mrs. Savage.

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Well, having kicked over the traces myself– and learned once again the importance of unimportant things– I decided I’d help others have the foolish things they’d always wanted.

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Ms. Willie: How were you going to do that?

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By establishing the Jonathan Savage Memorial Fund – a foundation for giving money away in memory of my husband. And that insane idea has brought me here.

69
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Ms. Willie: Well, you won’t find it too unpleasant here. Shall we go up to your room now?

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Well, at least I learned one thing from my French lessons.

70
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Ms. Willie: What’s that?

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What I am. I’m a “mort canard.” That’s a “dead duck” – I think.

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Ms. Willie: Now it’s not as bad as that.

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Yes, it is. Someday you’ll realize that a great injustice was done me. You’ll know that I was always quite sane. But here I am– and here they’ll try to keep me– with my few foolish years taken from me. If people would walk on the edge of the carpet once in a while, it would save wearing it out in the middle.

Ethel P. Savage Lines (3 decks)

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