Enchantment

Grizel Dane:
[very curious] Proutie, who was Lark?

Proutie:
She was old Mr. Dane's ward, miss.

Grizel Dane:
Uncle Rollo's ward?

Proutie:
Oh, dear, no, Miss Lark was Mr. Rollo's father's ward, miss. She grew up with Mr. Rollo and all the Dane children.

Grizel Dane:
And you were here even then?

Proutie:
Oh, yes, miss. My old auntie was in service with Mr. Rollo's father. I remember Miss Lark well. One doesn't forget Miss Lark. [changing the subject] Dinner will be served at 7.00 miss. The General likes to dress.

Grizel Dane:
Good. It'll be a pleasant change, we're allowed to be feminine off-duty. Proutie, you haven't told me what happened to Lark.

Proutie:
Nothing happened to her, miss.

Pilot Officer Pax Masterson:
I used to play hide and seek in these rooms.

Grizel Dane:
How interesting since you never set foot here before.

Pilot Officer Pax Masterson:
Imaginary hide and seek. When I was little my aunt taught me where every room was. She wanted to know this house as she remembered it, she grew up here.

Grizel Dane:
Was your aunt by any chance called Lark?

Pilot Officer Pax Masterson:
Yes, Lark Ingoldsby. I was brought up by her. She made me promise to visit this house if I ever got to London.

Grizel Dane:
You begin to make sense.

Lark Ingoldsby:
[singing] "I'll list for my soldier/And follow my love..."

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
[interrupting] Now I know why they call you "Lark".

Lark Ingoldsby:
[turning around] Were you there? Listening all the time?

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
You've grown up.

Lark Ingoldsby:
A little.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
I didn't know you could sing like that.

Lark Ingoldsby:
You didn't know I was growing up either.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Do you know what happened to this room?

Lark Ingoldsby:
No.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
It's full of light, sunshine and flowers.

Lark Ingoldsby:
We'll have seven children and a million pounds a year.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
What was that?

Lark Ingoldsby:
I was thinking when we were children. You've forgotten.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Shouldn't I share your thoughts?

Lark Ingoldsby:
We shall always be in love, won't we?

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Always.

Lark Ingoldsby:
Even when we're old?

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Even when we're old.

Lark Ingoldsby:
You'll listen to reason, not to me. The Danes have always listened to the reasons instead of their hearts.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Let's not get angry.

Lark Ingoldsby:
I am not angry, I'm lost. Pelham is in love with me. I can't stay here and hurt him.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Pelham?

Lark Ingoldsby:
Selina knows that if you go without me I must leave this house, too. I can't wait for you, Rollo!

Selina Dane:
We'll be so proud of you: General Sir Roland Dane.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
No. If I have to choose between my army career and Lark. I know which I want. I want Lark!

Selina Dane:
You can't mean that.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Believe me, I do.

Lark Ingoldsby:
[to Selina] As long as I am in this house. This is my room. [shouts] Get out of it!

Grizel Dane:
I sent him away.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
Then if I were you, I'd go and find him. Don't cheat yourself of love the way I did. Listen to me! Don't stop to bargain for happiness, for in one wasted moment, a door may close, a ship may sail, a train may leave, a man may die. Go after him or make your mind you'll never see him again.

General Sir Roland Dane a.k.a Rollo:
There's no such thing as an empty room.