Much Ado About Nothing at Dalton

THE DISASTER CEREMONY

Vila Dalton is decorated with white flowers and lamps, the fountains are already taking their places in the Vila chapel. The Anderson family, oblivious to the events of the previous night, are excited and anxious about the final preparations for the instruction.

Inside the chapel are Mr. Leonard Anderson, Frei Burt, Mr. Jeff, Nick and Blaine, waiting for the distinguished gentlemen at the altar, when Don David, don Sebastian and Kurt enter through the main door of the church, marching as if they are going there is a war.

Everyone positioned themselves to begin the instruction, Blaine with a hopeful smile on his face, while Kurt maintained a serious face.

"Come on, Frei Burt, be brief; will suffice as wedding formalities; then you will discuss the duties of the spouses. "Said Mr. Leonard playfully, not noticing the strange air that hung over Don David and Kurt's features.

Starting the formalities of the information, Frei Burt speaks out loud to all the sources that appear in the crowded church, listen, turns to Kurt and says: "Are you here, Mr. Kurt, to marry this boy?"

With an impassive face and a hard voice, Kurt replies dryly "NO!"

At first, the first ones took Kurt's answer as a joke, and the giggles and whispers flooded the church, waiting for the celebration to continue as expected.

In a playful tone, Mr. Leonard addresses Kurt and says "To marry Blaine and be your husband, of course you are here to marry him". And he laughed, not realizing the seriousness of the situation

Then addressing Blaine, Frei Burt says: "Did you come here, my dear Blaine, to marry Count Kurt?", Which was promptly answered with the most beautiful of smiles on Blaine's face "YES!"

Continuing a statement, now addressing the others present in the chapel, Frei Burt says "-If any of those present know of any impediment to the realization of this wedding, for the salvation of the soul, reveal it now or shut up forever." .

Kurt, taking his cue to speak, turns to Blaine and, looking straight into the boy's eyes sarcastically says, "Do you know any, bad dear Blaine?", Which was answered with a hesitant smile and a confused tone of voice "None, Mr. "

Sensing that the situation was taking a strange turn, Frei in turn asks Count Kurt: "Do you know any, Count Kurt, who would you like to tell?"

Mr. Leonard, trying to put the situation on track, half without knowing what was happening there, said "I dare answer for him: none."

Seized by Mr. Leonard's reply, Kurt, then even more challenging and with a tone of voice even more poisonous than before, begins "Oh! How dare men do! How much they can do! How much they do every day, without knowing what they are doing! "

Mr. Jeff, who until then only observed the situation that was going on, spoke to friend Kurt trying to understand what was going on there "What is this? Interjections? Let at least some be laughing: ah! Ah! ah! " trying to break the tension created in the environment, but he was answered by Kurt, addressing the friar sharply. "Frei Burt, stay aside for a moment." Which made the situation stranger and more uncomfortable.

Kurt then went on, his face increasingly serious and his voice increasingly high and dry, addressing his speech to Mr. Leonard Anderson: "Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen here. I wonder; is it without embarrassment, father, of your own free will that you give me this young boy, your son? "

Confused and annoyed by the tone of the question asked by Kurt, Mr. Leonard answered nonetheless "As free and honorable, son, as God has given me", and placed his right hand on Blaine's shoulder, who no longer had his face so happy as at the beginning of the ceremony.