Alice in Wonderland Page #2

HAMISH (CONT’D)

Do I amuse you?

ALICE:

No. I had a sudden vision of all the

ladies in top hats and the men wearing

bonnets.

He doesn’t even crack a smile.

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HAMISH:

It would be best to keep your visions

to yourself. When in doubt, remain

silent.

Alice’s smile fades. Without her father, she feels there’s

no one like her in the whole world. They dance on. Alice

sees a flock of geese overhead. Distracted, she bumps into

the dancers in front of them.

HAMISH (CONT’D)

Pardon us! Miss Kingsley is

distracted today.

(to Alice)

Where is your head?

ALICE:

I was wondering what it would be like

to fly.

HAMISH:

Why would you waste your time thinking

about such an impossible thing?

ALICE:

Why wouldn’t I? My father said he

sometimes believed in six impossible

things before breakfast.

She laughs at the memory. Hamish looks pained. He sees his

mother nearby. She waves him on impatiently.

HAMISH:

Meet me under the gazebo in precisely

ten minutes.

He goes off. Suddenly two giggling girls appear in front of

Alice. It’s the Chattaways.

FAITH:

We have a secret to tell you.

ALICE:

If you’re telling me, then it’s not

much of a secret.

FIONA:

Perhaps we shouldn’t.

FAITH:

We decided we should!

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FIONA:

If we tell her, she won’t be

surprised.

FAITH:

Will you be surprised?

ALICE:

Not if you tell me. But now you’ve

brought it up, you have to.

FAITH:

No we don’t.

FIONA:

In fact, we won’t.

ALICE:

I wonder if your mother knows that you

two swim naked in the Havershim’s

pond.

FAITH:

You wouldn’t!

ALICE:

Oh, but I would. There’s your mother

now.

Alice starts to walk toward her. Fiona blurts out.

FIONA:

Hamish is going to ask for your hand!

Alice stops dead. Her sister, MARGARET, suddenly pulls her

away.

MARGARET:

You’ve ruined the surprise!

(to Alice)

I could strangle them! Everyone went

to so much effort to keep the secret.

ALICE:

Does everyone know?

MARGARET:

It’s why they’ve all come. This is

your engagement party. Hamish will ask

you under the gazebo. When you say

“yes”...

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ALICE:

But I don’t know if I want to marry

him.

MARGARET:

Who then? You won’t do better than a

Lord.

She looks at Hamish who blows his nose, studies the contents

of his kerchief, then folds it and puts it in his pocket.

MARGARET:

You’ll soon be twenty, Alice. That

pretty face won’t last forever. You

don’t want to end up like Aunt

Imogene.

They look at their middle-aged AUNT IMOGENE with over-rouged

cheeks and a yellowing white dress that’s too young for her.

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