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SCENE 1 -HIGHBURY
NARRATOR
In a time when ones town was ones town was ones world...and the actions
at a dance excited greater interest than the movement of armies, there
lived a young woman, who knew how this world should be runned.
EMMA
The most beautiful thing in the world is a match well made, and a happy
marriage to you both.
MRS WESTON
Oh, thank you Emma. Your painting grows more accomplished every day.
EMMA
You are very kind, but it would be all the better if I had practiced my
drawing more, as you urged me.
MRS WESTON
Its very beautiful.
MR ELTON
I should never take sides against you, Miss Woodhouse, but your friend is
right. It is indeed a job well done.
EMMA
The job well done, Mr Elton was yours in performing the ceremony.
MR WOODHOUSE
Must the church be so drafty, Mr Elton? It is very difficult to surrender
the soul when one is worried about ones throat.
MR ELTON
Perhaps some tea and cake would revive you, Mr Woodhouse.
MR WOODHOUSE
Miss Taylor! Surely you are not serving cake at your wedding! Far too rich!
You put us all at peril. And I am not alone in feeling so. Where is Mr
Penning, the apothecary, he will support me.
MRS WESTON
Hes over there, Mr Woodhouse, having some cake.
MR WOODHOUSE
What?!
EMMA
I have to take father home, but dear Miss Taylor-Oh, no! You are dear Miss
Taylor no more! You are dear Mrs Weston now! And how happy this must make
you. Such happiness this brings to all of us.
MRS WESTON
My dear Emma!
SCENE 2-HARTFIELD
MR WOODHOUSE
Poor Miss Taylor! She was so happy here. Why should she give up being your
governess, only to be married?
EMMA
I am grown now. She cannot put up with my ill humors forever. She must wish
for children of her own.
MR WOODHOUSE
You have no ill humors. Your own mother, God rest her, could be no more
real than Miss Taylor. Can she truly wish to give life to a mewling infant
who will import disease each time it enters the house? No, I say poor Miss
Taylor, and poor indeed she is.
MR KNIGHTLEY
As an old friend of the family, I had to ask as soon as I got back: Who
cried the most at the wedding?
(later)
EMMA
And how is my sister? Is your brother giving her the respect we Woodhouse
ladies deserve?
MR WOODHOUSE
Poor Isabella. She was the first to leave me. No doubt that is where Miss
Taylor got the notion to go.
MR KNIGHTLEY
Dont be too hard on Miss Taylor. It must be easier for her to have only
one to please than two.
EMMA
Especially when one of us is such a troublesome creature.
MR WOODHOUSE
Yes, I am. Most troublesome.
EMMA
Dear papa, I could never mean you! Mr Knightley loves to find fault with
me, thats all. Its his idea of a joke.
MR KNIGHTLEY
I am practically a brother to you Emma. It is not a brothers job to find
fault with his sister?
MR WOODHOUSE
But where is the fault with you? Emma bears it well, but she is most sorry
to lose Miss Taylor.
MR KNIGHTLEY
We would not like Emma so well if she did not miss her friend.
MR WOODHOUSE
Thank you.
EMMA
I shall miss her so. I do not know what I shall do without her.
MR KNIGHTLEY
Shes not far.
MR WOODHOUSE
Almost half a mile.
EMMA
Her obligations are there now. She cannot sit and talk with me in the old
way, or walk with me, or urge me to better myself.
MR KNIGHTLEY
Well, that should not matter, as you always did just as you pleased.
EMMA
Yes, but I shall miss her urging me. She was a selfless a friend as I have
ever had, and I hope to say someday that I have done half so much for
someone as Mrs Weston did for me.
MR KNIGHTLEY
You must be happy that she settled so well.
EMMA
Indeed! One matter of joy in this is that I made the match myself. People
said Mr Weston would never marry again, and what a triumph!
MR KNIGHTLEY
Triumph! You made a lucky guess!
EMMA
Have you never known a triumph from a lucky guess? Had I not promoted Mr
Westons visits, and given encouragement where encouragement was needed, we
might not have had a wedding today.
MR WOODHOUSE
Then please, my dear, encourage nowhere else. Marriage is so disrupting to
ones social circle.
EMMA
Only one more, papa. When Mr Elton joined their hands today, he looked very
much like he would like the same kind of office performed for him.
MR KNIGHTLEY
*sigh*
MR WOODHOUSE
Invite him for dinner. That is kindness enough.
MR KNIGHTLEY
Mr Elton is a man of twenty-six. He knows how to take care of himself.
EMMA
One does not like to generalize about so many people all at once, Mr
Knightley, but you may be sure that men know nothing of their hearts,
whether they be six and twenty, or six and eighty. Except you, of course,
father. No, Mr Elton will be the next person to benefit from my help.
MR KNIGHTLEY
Poor Miss Taylor indeed! Tis Mr Elton which deserves our pity.
SCENE 3-PARTY AT HARTFIELD
EMMA
Mr Elton! Welcome to our party!
MR ELTON
Yes, Miss Woodhouse, thank you indeed for including me. A party is a party,
but a party on a summers eve...
EMMA
It relieves my mind very much that you are here, for there is someone new
in our group. Her name is Harriet S
