SCENE FOUR
OUTSIDE, IN A PARK SOMEWHERE
#19A BEFORE COUNTESS AND THE COMMON MAN
VLAD
I crossed a continent for this moment.
LILY
Still up to your old tricks?
(She crosses to exit but VLAD stops her.)
VLAD
Admit you're happy to see me.
LILY
I'm glad you're not dead, but that's as far as I'm
prepared to go.
(She makes a scene of walking away from him. "Seductively".)
What are you doing in Paris?
VLAD
(taking off his suit jacket)
Didn't you get my letter?
LILY
I did; and I promptly tore it up.
(She sits on a bench stage right.)
VLAD
(running after her)
You've grown hard, my darling Lily.
LILY
No harder than need be.
VLAD
My precious Lily.
LILY
I'm not the woman you remember, Vlad.
VLAD
No. You're even lovelier than I remember.
(He takes her arm and kisses it after each word.)
My hot-blooded. Sensual. Passionate-
(She flips and gets up.)
LILY
That was then. When the world was beautiful!
VLAD
We'll make it beautiful again! In Paris! The city of lovers!
LILY
If only we could.
VLAD
Ever since that first day in court when I saw you, I knew I was beneath you.
LILY
You're right, darling. You were.
#20 THE COUNTESS AND THE COMMON MAN
VLAD
I NOTICED YOU ACROSS A ROOM
THE MOST EXQUISITE ROSE
THE TINIEST TIARA AND
THAT HAUGHTY LITTLE NOSE
I FLIRTED WITH YOU SHAMELESSLY
LILY
OR SO THE SCANDAL GOES...
THE COUNTESS
VLAD
AND THE COMMON MAN
WE TIPTOED OFF TO PETERHOF
YOU ARE READING
Anastasia Revisioned
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