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31 Plays in 31 Days, #15 - “Meddling”
I’m not sure this scene as it is currently constructed will make it into the final version of Hawking part 8. The ideas in it are useful and good, but structurally I’m still working out some issues. But as I’ve mentioned, like in #3 - No Secrets, I’m working on including a thread of Clara struggling with some stuff across the narrative of this one, and this is an early scene in that progress. It’s supposed to give the audience a hint that something is going on without totally giving away the game yet. Again, it might have to be fit into the plot differently, but the ideas are sound.
Photo by Mazz Mazzacano
Day #15 - “Meddling”
From Mrs Hawking part 8
By Phoebe Roberts
London, 1892
NATHANIEL HAWKING, right hand to the lady’s Champion of London, late thirties
CLARA HAWKING, his society wife, early forties
~~~
CLARA: Well, that went all right, wouldn’t you say?
NATHANIEL: Clara, you didn’t tell me you’d brought Auntie into this.
CLARA: What? I didn’t think I had to. Why wouldn’t I go to Auntie with a case?
NATHANIEL: I suppose. Only I thought you understood that Mary had stepped away from her.
CLARA: Of course I did.
NATHANIEL: I’m not sure it’s fair to her to throw her into Auntie’s company against her will.
CLARA: You know how dear Susan is to me. We must see she has all the help she can get. I should think Madam and Mary would put aside such things in order to help.
NATHANIEL: Perhaps. Still, after four years, we ought to have prepared them.
CLARA: (Sighs) Perhaps so, but at least we had them in the same room again. They’ll never repair things if they refuse to speak to one another.
NATHANIEL: You want them to repair things?
CLARA: Don’t you?
NATHANIEL: You know how badly I do. I’m a little surprised at you, though.
CLARA: Why ever so? Don’t you think I care for them?
NATHANIEL: Well…
CLARA: Nathaniel!
NATHANIEL: Of course I do. If only for my sake. It’s only that… this is a great deal of trouble to go to. And it may not go as you plan.
CLARA: It’s worth it if that’s what it takes to help Susan. And if Madam and Mary make amends, so much the better. Like I said, there shan’t be any hope of it if they avoid one another.
NATHANIEL: That’s certainly true. Do you really think there’s a chance?
CLARA: I’m certain of it. And I mean for us to help if we can.
NATHANIEL: I don’t want to overstep with meddling, love.
CLARA: Then we’ll have to be delicate about it. Lucky for us, delicacy in social matters is my speciality.
Photo by Mazz Mazzacano
Day #15 - “Meddling”
From Mrs Hawking part 8
By Phoebe Roberts
London, 1892
NATHANIEL HAWKING, right hand to the lady’s Champion of London, late thirties
CLARA HAWKING, his society wife, early forties
~~~
CLARA: Well, that went all right, wouldn’t you say?
NATHANIEL: Clara, you didn’t tell me you’d brought Auntie into this.
CLARA: What? I didn’t think I had to. Why wouldn’t I go to Auntie with a case?
NATHANIEL: I suppose. Only I thought you understood that Mary had stepped away from her.
CLARA: Of course I did.
NATHANIEL: I’m not sure it’s fair to her to throw her into Auntie’s company against her will.
CLARA: You know how dear Susan is to me. We must see she has all the help she can get. I should think Madam and Mary would put aside such things in order to help.
NATHANIEL: Perhaps. Still, after four years, we ought to have prepared them.
CLARA: (Sighs) Perhaps so, but at least we had them in the same room again. They’ll never repair things if they refuse to speak to one another.
NATHANIEL: You want them to repair things?
CLARA: Don’t you?
NATHANIEL: You know how badly I do. I’m a little surprised at you, though.
CLARA: Why ever so? Don’t you think I care for them?
NATHANIEL: Well…
CLARA: Nathaniel!
NATHANIEL: Of course I do. If only for my sake. It’s only that… this is a great deal of trouble to go to. And it may not go as you plan.
CLARA: It’s worth it if that’s what it takes to help Susan. And if Madam and Mary make amends, so much the better. Like I said, there shan’t be any hope of it if they avoid one another.
NATHANIEL: That’s certainly true. Do you really think there’s a chance?
CLARA: I’m certain of it. And I mean for us to help if we can.
NATHANIEL: I don’t want to overstep with meddling, love.
CLARA: Then we’ll have to be delicate about it. Lucky for us, delicacy in social matters is my speciality.