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ALICE:

Very.

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She backs away and runs into her sister’s husband, LOWELL,

kissing a strange woman. The woman runs off.

ALICE:

Lowell?

LOWELL:

Alice. We were...Hattie is an old

friend.

ALICE:

I can see you’re very close.

Lowell is bright red and highly flustered.

LOWELL:

You won’t mention this to your sister,

will you?

ALICE:

I don’t know. I’m confused. I need

time to think.

LOWELL:

Think of Margaret. She would never

trust me again. You don’t want to

ruin her marriage, do you?

ALICE:

Me? I’m not the one...

Suddenly Hamish is there, annoyed.

HAMISH:

There you are! I told you meet me

under the gazebo!

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He pulls her under the gazebo. The shadows of the pillars

fall on her like prison bars. She glances at a string

quartet discreetly positioned in the shadows... bows poised.

Hamish drops to his knee. Alice notices an artist

immortalizing the moment.

HAMISH (CONT’D)

Alice Kingsley...

ALICE:

Hamish.

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HAMISH:

What is it?

ALICE:

You have a caterpillar on your

shoulder.

He frantically brushes at his shoulder.

ALICE (CONT’D)

Don’t hurt it.

Alice lets the CATERPILLAR crawl onto her finger, then places

it gently onto a tree branch.

HAMISH:

You’ll want to wash that finger.

He sees his mother motioning to him from below. Everyone is

watching. He blurts out.

HAMISH (CONT’D)

Alice Kingsley, will you be my wife?

The question hangs in the air. Unsure of herself, unsure of

her future, unsure of her own sanity in that moment, Alice

stammers.

ALICE:

I...I......well, everyone expects me

to...and you’re a Lord...and my face

won’t last...and I don’t want to end

up like...but this is happening so

quickly...I think...I...I...

She sees the WHITE RABBIT leaning against a pillar, glaring

at her with undisguised impatience.

ALICE (CONT’D)

...need a moment.

She turns and runs.

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She follows the White Rabbit across a meadow.

ALICE:

Wait!

She loses sight of him. She peeks over the hedgerow. No

rabbit. Stumped, she looks around.

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A white paw reaches up and grasps her by the ankle. With a

quick jerk, it pulls her down into the rabbit hole. She

screams...

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...and keeps screaming as she tumbles head over heels down

the rabbit hole. She frantically grabs at the walls which are hung

with paintings, ancient maps, cracked mirrors, demonic masks,

etc. She pulls out books, jam jars, a crystal ball, a badger

claw, a monkey’s hand and a human skull in her frantic effort

to stop herself. And down she falls. It begins to grow dark

as the day passes into night. And still she falls. Finally,

after what seems like hours...

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