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SCENE IX

(The curtain goes down; children appear on the stage looking if no-one sees them)

· Fredric: So, what do you think about all of these?

· Martha: About what?

· Fredric: I think father is going to marry this woman.

· Clara: She is so charming and delicate.

· Louisa: Oh, no! She is cold and tricky.

· Brigit: Like the snake we had put into Miss Handy’s pocket.

· Lisle: Brigit, stop that.

· Fredric: Well, I think the word “cold” suits her.

· Lisle: Our father has very bad taste, that’s all.

· Clara: Aren’t you tired to complain him all the time?

· Fredric: Aren’t you tired to agree with him all the time?

· Greta: Please, enough.

· Louisa: Maybe father will see what the baroness is and won’t marry her.

· Fredric: Yes, I know the cow that saw the way to the butchery, but it was too late to run away.

· Martha: It would be great if father got married, not to the baroness but to …

· Greta: To whom?

· Martha: I didn’t mean… ok, let’s stop that.

· Lisle: We don’t know the baroness well to say so, in any case.

· Greta: Yes, father knows what he is doing.

· Brigit: Well, if Greta says so… let’s leave it till tomorrow.

· Clara: Hey! Listen!

SCENE X

(They leave the stage as quiet as possible; the curtain goes up; Maria is sitting and praying)

· Captain: Hello! Oh, please, don’t go. Stay here. I only wanted you to plan everything here in my estate.

· Maria: I think Baroness will do that better.

· Captain: Maria, there won’t be any marriage.

· Maria: Won’t be?! I can’t understand.

· Captain: We cut our engagement.

· Maria: Cut your engagement … I am sorry…

· Captain: Oh, …yes,… you are?

· Maria: What do you mean?

· Captain: You see, it’s impossible to get married if you love someone else.

· Maria: Mother Superior says when God closes the door he doesn’t forget to open the window.

· Captain: What else does your Mother Superior say?

· Maria: That everyone must find his destiny and happiness herself or himself.

· Captain: Have you found them yet, Maria?

· Maria: Maybe…I mean, I’m sure I have.

Perhaps, I had a wicked childhood,

Perhaps, I had a miserable youth,

But somewhere in my wicked, miserable past

There must have been a moment of truth.

For here you are, standing there loving me

Whether or not you should

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good.

Nothing comes from nothing,

Nothing ever could…

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good.

· Captain: Do you know when I understood I love you? At night at the dinner table, when you sat on that ridiculous pine cone.

· Maria: What?! I knew the first time you blew that silly whistle.

Nothing comes from nothing,

Nothing ever could…

So somewhere in my youth or childhood

I must have done something good.

· Captain: Maria, is there somebody I should ask a permission to marry you?

· Maria: Maybe, we should ask the children?

· All together: OPEN YOUR HEАRTS AND LET THE MUSIC IN!!!