The Romantic Age TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text GERVASE. I want to marry you.<br><br>MELISANDE (taken by surprise). Oh! . . . How dare you!<br><br>GERVASE. But I told you this morning.<br><br>MELISANDE. I think you had better leave this morning out of it.<br><br>GERVASE. But if I leave this morning out of it, then I have only just met you.<br><br>MELISANDE. That is what I would prefer.<br><br>GERVASE. Oh! . . . Then if I have only just met you, perhaps I oughtn't to have said straight off that I want to marry you.<br><br>MELISANDE. It is unusual.<br><br>GERVASE. Yes. But not unusual to want to marry you.<br><br>MELISANDE. I am not interested in your wants.<br><br>GERVASE. Oh! (Gently) I'm sorry that we've got to forget about this morning. (Going closer to her) Is it so easy to forget, Melisande?<br><br>MELISANDE. Very easy for you, I should think.<br><br>GERVASE. But not for you?<br><br>MELISANDE (bitterly). You dress up and amuse yourself, and then laugh and go back to your ordinary life again--you don't want to remember that, do you, every time you do it?<br><br>GERVASE. You let your hair down and flirt with me and laugh and go home again, but you can't forget. Why should I?<br><br>MELISANDE (furiously). How dare you say I flirted with you?<br><br>GERVASE. How dare you say I laughed at you? COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheRomanticAge.pdf
