Scene 2

Front 1

Marjory: And this will be your bedroom.

Back 1

Emilie: Oh…uh…

Front 2

M: Is there a problem?

Back 2

E: ..Is this not the parlor?

Front 3

M: It’s your bedroom. Ma’am.

Back 3

E: …Oh, but you see, it looks like…?

I see. Yes. Of course.

Front 4

M: Now there’s dishes to attend to in the scullery.

Back 4

E: Just a moment.

Front 5

M: Yes ma’am?

Back 5

E: Which maid did you say you were?

Front 6

M: I’m the maid. Your maid.

Back 6

E: And you have the typhus?

Front 7

M: Sort of everybody’s maid. Yes , yes I do.

Back 7

E: Are you the one with the typhus or the one with the baby?

Front 8

M: I’m both, sort of both.

Back 8

E: How are you both of something? Either you are something, or you are another thing.

Front 9

M: When I’m in the scullery, I have the typhus. When I’m in the parlor, I have the baby.

Back 9

E: Oh.

Front 10

M: It’s how the time passes here.

Back 10

E: I see. That is one way of doing things.

Front 11

M: Indeed it is.

Back 11

E: Im terribly sorry to hear about your…conditions.

Front 12

M: I don’t need you to be.

Back 12

E: Ah-just a moment.

Front 13

M: Yes ma’am.

Back 13

E: How long have you worked for this household?

Front 14

M: Oh. Forever, ma’am.

Back 14

E: How old are you?

Front 15

M: I haven’t been counting. Ma’am.

Back 15

E: But you were raised out here on these savage moors, you were treated kindly, perhaps they took you to church on Sundays to hear their father’s sermons…? Master Branwell said-

Front 16

M: You spoke to him!

Back 16

E: In the letter. He wrote me a letter.

Front 17

M: Oh.

Back 17

E: …What surprises you?

Front 18

H: I have a diary.

Back 18

E: …I’m sorry?

Front 19

H: A diary. I keep one.

Back 19

E: Well that’s lovely.

Front 20

H: I have a very active imagination.

Back 20

E: Master Branwell - is he also a man of God?

Front 21

H: No, I wouldn’t say that.

Back 21

E: A kind man, would you say? A gentle one?

Front 22

M: Nothing. I’m not surprised.

Back 22

E: You seem so. You seem greatly surprised.

Front 23

M: No, not I.

Back 23

E: Is Master Branwell very frightening? Are you frightened of him?

Front 24

Huldey: There you are!

Back 24

Emilie: Mistress Huldey!

Front 25

H: I’m so excited you’re here!

Back 25

E: Oh- well- thank you…

Front 26

H: But in general, the moors are very pretty.

Back 26

E: Mistress Huldey-

Front 27

H: Oh, just Huldey, please.

Back 27

E: Huldey -

Front 28

H: It sounds so wonderful how you say my name.

Back 28

E: Can I ask you something?

Front 29

H: Anything!

Back 29

E: …Is this my bedroom?

Front 30

H: Of course.

Back 30

E: Ah.

But.

Does it not - I mean - does it not look very much like the parlor?

Front 31

H: Do you keep a diary, Emilie? (May I call you Emilie?)

Back 31

E: I don’t keep a diary, I’m afraid.

Front 32

H: Oh that’s too bad. That’s too bad. But you might start!

Back 32

E: I…might, I suppose.

Front 33

H: You might start tonight, if you wanted.

Back 33

E: I’m not much of a writer, I have to confess-

Front 34

H: And when you have a different feeling, you write down a different header, TUESDAY, for example-

Back 34

E: (laughing) but you can’t just start a new day whenever you like.

Front 35

H: That’s how the time works out here.

Back 35

E: …Well, that’s very helpful, I’ll consider it. If you don’t mind my asking about your brother-

Front 36

H: You might describe what it was like.

Back 36

E: I- yes, I suppose I could.

Front 37

H: I’ve heard that in London? one gets murdered.

Back 37

E: Murdered?

Front 38

H: Most horribly murdered, I’ve heard.

Back 38

E: Would you describe your brother as a gentle man, do you think, Huldey?

Front 39

H: My brother?

Back 39

E: Yes.

Front 40

H: Describe him?

Back 40

E: For example- he had a very nice hand. In his letters.

Front 41

H: Did he.

Back 41

E: A very gentle and well-formed hand.

Front 42

H: That’s nice.

Back 42

E: And the words he used were educated ones.

Front 43

H: In which to be educated in one thing or another.

Back 43

E: But I imagine your brother went to study somewhere? London, perhaps? France?

Front 44

H: Studying, was not. Quite.

Back 44

E: Just like a boy. I imagine he preferred lively debates about the law, and dances, perhaps?

Front 45

H: Hmm.

Back 45

E: I’m so looking forward to meeting your brother - and the child -

Front 46

H: I might read you a page or two from my diary, if you very much wished it.

Back 46

E: (Alarmed) That wouldn’t be necessary, I’m sure.

Front 47

H: It’s very vivid and upsetting, and I might, I might, if you very much-

Back 47

E: Oh, no-

Front 48

H: Just one page, or two, or perhaps a chapter, or -

Back 48

E: We should both get ready for dinner, don’t you think?