GERVASE. Say, "Please come and see me again, Gervase."
MELISANDE. Please come and see me again, Gervase.
GERVASE (Jumping up and waving his hand) Say, "Hooray for things!"
MELISANDE (standing up, but shyly still). Hooray for things!
GERVASE. Thank you, Melisande . . . I must go. (He presses her hand and
goes; or seems to be going. But suddenly he comes back, bends on one
knee, raises her hand on his, and kisses it) My Princess!
[Then GERVASE goes out.
(MELISANDE stays there, looking after him, her hand to her cheek. . . .
But one cannot stand thus for ever. The new life must begin. With a
little smile at herself, at GERVASE, at things, she fetches out the
Great Book from its hiding-place, where she had buried it many weeks
ago in disgust. Now it comes into its own. She settles down with it in
her favourite chair. . . .)
MELISANDE (reading). To make Bread-Sauce. . . . Take an onion, peel and
quarter it, and simmer it in milk. . . .
(But you know how the romantic passage goes. We have her with it,
curled up in the chair, this adorable child, this funny foolish little
girl.)
THE STEPMOTHER
A PLAY IN ONE ACT
CHARACTERS
SIR JOHN PEMBURY, M.P.
LADY PEMBURY.
PERKINS.
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