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Hi guys!

So today I had a scene study class, where basically I get a script for a scene and I memorize a charactres lines and we do blocking and everything. The scene is from a play called The Children's Hour, and basically my character, Mary, is trying to get her school shut down. I'll put the description here:

In this scene from the middle of the play, Mary is well on her way to success in destroying the school. She has run away from school to her grandmother and has related several malicious and untrue incidents. Her distraught grandmother has promised that Mary need not return to school and she has called several parents, who have also hurriedly sent for their children. In the following scene, Rosalie has has come to Mary's house for the night as her mother cannot pick her up until the following day.

So yeah, Mary lied to her grandmother that the teachers physically abused her and other students in an attepmt to shut down the school. At the end of the play the school does shut down. I also have some creepy lines... Here's a part of the scene:

Mary: I want to tell her about Helen Burton's bracelet.
Rosalie: What about it?
Mary: Just that you stole it.
Rosalie: Shut up. I didn't do any such thing.
Mary: Yes, you did.
Rosalie: You made it up. You're always making things up.
Mary: You can't call me a liar, Rosalie Wells. That's a kind of dare and I won't take a dare. I guess I'll fo tell Grandma, anyway. Then she can call the police and they'll come for you and you'll get tried in court. And you'll go to one of those prisons and you'll get older and older, and when you're good and old they'll let you out, but your mother and father will be dead and you won't have any pace to go and you'll beg on the streets-
*I HAVE TO SAY THAT CREEPY STUFF*
Rosalie: I didn't steal anything. I borrowed the bracelet and I was going to pur ir back as soon as I'd worn it to the movies. I never meant to keep it.
Mary: Nobody'll believe that, least of all the police. You're just a common, ordinary theif. Stop that bawling. You'll have the whole house down here in a minute.
Rosalie: You won't tell? Say you won't.
Mary: Am I a liar?
Rosalie: No.
Mary: Then say: "I apologize on my hands and knees."
Rosalie: I apologize on my hands and knees. Let's play with the puzzle. (Mary was playing with a puzzle at the beginning of the scene)
Mary: Wait a minute. Say: "From now on, I, Rosalie Wells, am the vassal of Mary Tilford and will do and say whatever she tells me under the solemn oath of a knight."
Rosalie: I won't say that. That's the worst oath there is. Mary! Please don't-
Mary: Will you swear it?
Rosalie: But then you could tell me to do anything.
Mary: Say it quick or I'll-
Rosalie: From now on, I, Rosalie Wells, am the vassal of Mary Tilford and will do and say whatever she tells me under the solemn oath of a knight.
Mary: Don't forget that.

I'm Mary, the creepy one.

Wish me luck, I have more lines to memorize than just the ones up there, too.

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