The polite smiles from the couple change to a look of poorly concealed horror. They exchange rather shocked glances, then turn back to Demeter and Teja.
"Now look here, we've worked very hard to get Carlotta into this school and mixing with decent, ladylike people." her father says seriously. "I don't know how she managed to organise this, and I will be having words with her for making you both come out here. She doesn't need your kind tempting her."
At this moment, the curtains open, and the play begins. A very shy and timid-looking girl enters dressed as the Countess, gives the audience a terrified look, then allows herself to become so deeply absorbed in the part that she manages to forget they are there.
Carlotta enters in the second scene, and is sufficiently shocked to see Demeter and Teja sitting with the relatives she just told them to be careful with, that she forgets her lines.
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Date: 2008-11-19 11:45 pm (UTC)"Now look here, we've worked very hard to get Carlotta into this school and mixing with decent, ladylike people." her father says seriously. "I don't know how she managed to organise this, and I will be having words with her for making you both come out here. She doesn't need your kind tempting her."
At this moment, the curtains open, and the play begins. A very shy and timid-looking girl enters dressed as the Countess, gives the audience a terrified look, then allows herself to become so deeply absorbed in the part that she manages to forget they are there.
Carlotta enters in the second scene, and is sufficiently shocked to see Demeter and Teja sitting with the relatives she just told them to be careful with, that she forgets her lines.