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ACT 2 No. 10: TRIO - Dolly, Inez & Grigg  MIDI FILE [28KB, 4' 12"]DOLLY: (aside to GRIGG)
What is the matter, Peter? (aside to herself) He seems afraid to greet her! GRIGG: (aside) I'm not prepared to meet her! INEZ: (aside) A fickle, perjured cheater! DOLLY: (aside to GRIGG sternly)
Remember, you're a hero - not a booby! GRIGG: (miserably, aside)
If one wife is too much, Oh what will two be! INEZ: (with grim satisfaction, aside)
I think another ransom soon will due be! GRIGG: (aside to DOLLY)
I'll struggle with my shyness. DOLLY: (aside to GRIGG)
Do overcome your shyness. INEZ: (aside)
I'll make him pay for slyness. GRIGG: Here goes! (Addresses INEZ, nervously affecting courageous politeness) How is your Highness? Your Grace, I mean! (Taking advantage of DOLLY's turning away laughing at his mistake, he goes on aside to INEZ) Be merciful, oh, do be! INEZ: (aside with cutting politeness) My Grace is well!
(aside to him, viciously) You villain! (aloud, politely) How may you be? DOLLY: (aside, turning away and laughing)
"Your Highness!" Shy as Peter very few be! "Your Highness!" Ha! ha! ha! (aloud) The Duchess will excuse you! INEZ (taking her hand)
Must you go? I can't refuse you. GRIGG: Au revoir! INEZ: (aside to him while DOLLY is waving her handkerchief, as if
to COUNT and COUNTESS in the distance) I will not lose you! You're not free! GRIGG: (despairingly, aside) I'm not free! DOLLY: (signalling at wing) Me they see! GRIGG: (explaining to INEZ)
Our friends are waiting yonder. DOLLY: Hurry up! or off they'll wander, INEZ: (stopping GRIGG as he tries to pass her)
Then of friends you are much fonder Than of me! GRIGG: (miserably) O dear me! DOLLY: (signalling) Past the tree! GRIGG: (aside, wretchedly)
What a terrible virago! INEZ puts him round viciously and gets towards DOLLY. INEZ (aloud to DOLLY, pointing off)
Who are those? They cannot far go? DOLLY: (to INEZ) Count and Countess de Gonzago. INEZ (surprised and delighted) Them I know! DOLLY: (surprised and delighted) What! them you know! GRIGG: (suddenly recollecting, and now utterly dejected,
aside) Yes! just so!
DOLLY: (confidentially to INEZ)
I will tell you as we're walking, But he must not hear us talking, How the brigands he went stalking, INEZ starts. GRIGG despairing. DOLLY: Though approve of it you mayn't, Let us run and go before him As my story would but bore him, Should he come, we can't ignore him - He is modest as a saint! INEZ: What a character revealing! Private diary unsealing! With a hero we are dealing - On his honour not a taint. (aside to him) 'Tis no use in mercy crying! I shall hear how you've been lying! For escape don't think of trying Any trick, or dodge, or feint! GRIGG: (aside)
Oh, my brain is whirling, reeling, There is something o'er me stealing, Just the sickly kind of feeling That's produced by smelling paint. I am writhing like a conger, Going weaker 'stead of stronger, If they keep it up much longer I shall have a fit and faint! Have a fit! Have a fit! Have a fit! ENSEMBLE.
DOLLY and INEZ dance off merrily arm in arm. GRIGG whirls about, then staggers and falls into chair, fainting.
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