The Woman In White Cast, Prologue Lyrics from "Woman In White"
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Prologue Lyricsby The Woman In White Cast. From Woman In White Prologue by The Woman In White Cast (A railway cutting. A wild stormy summer night. The Signal Man is in his signalbox. He receives a message from down the line. He wires back a message. We hear the strange,eerie singing of the wires. From the gloom we see a figure of a man-Walter Hartright. He is about 30 years of age,attractive,dark,open. He carries a bag and an easel. He sees the Signal Man checking the tracks with his lantern below him) HARTRIGHT:Hallo! Below there! Hallo! (A lightning flash) HARTRIGHT:Signal Man? Down there...Hallo! (Pause) SIGNAL MAN:Who calls to me in the dead of the night? (Walter steps out of the shadows into the light of the Signal Man's lantern) HARTRIGHT:Hartright. My name is Walter Hartright. (He climbs down to the Signal Man's level) SIGNAL MAN:What are you doing here, on a night like this? HARTRIGHT:I'm lost sir. I'm trying to find my way to Limm'ridge House-The train broke down and I'm forced to walk. SIGNAL MAN:Branch train broke down-what you say is true. HARTRIGHT:Yes,I heard the wires singing in the wind-The noise of them led me to you. SIGNAL MAN:Why are you going to Limm'ridge House? HARTRIGHT:I have the post of drawing master-I must arrive tonight for I start tomorrow... Sir, you look upon me with such dread. (Pause) SIGNAL MAN:Last night I had a vision That a stranger would appear He stood right where you are- A man such as yourself. "Alarm on the line!" he said Alarm on the line! So I tapped out the message And the answer came back "All well both ways" But he said "You'll mark my words When a year to this day The dead lie on the tracks! The dead lie on the tracks!" HARTRIGHT:I can assure you sir,I know of no imminent danger! SIGNAL MAN:A man such as yourself! (Suddenly there is a strange sound in the air. The telegraph wires sound again in the signal box) SIGNAL MAN:There calling me from the down the line. There's danger somewhere along the line. (The sound of the wires grows to a terrible pitch. From behind Hartright,from the depths of the tunnel a hand reaches out and touches him on the shoulder. It is a woman dressed in white(Anne Catherick). She is in her early 20's,fair,attractive,but her face is drawn and sorrowful. Her manner is wild and insistent) HARTRIGHT:(startled)Oh, my God! ANNE:You've got to help me! There's someone after me! HARTRIGHT:How can I help you? ANNE:I'm being followed and I've done nothing wrong! HARTRIGHT:It's very late for you to be out here alone- ANNE:You must believe me that I am free from blame. HARTRIGHT:Who do you run from? ANNE:I dare not say his name! HARTRIGHT:Where do you live? I'll try to help you if I can. ANNE:I have a secret. My precious secret But can I trust you? But can I trust you? (Her tone changes. She reaches out to him.) ANNE:They cannot take away my secret- thought it's something I can't share with you. It's locked inside my heart,my secret- but there's someone I must tell it to. Secrets kept inside can hurt you mine is sharper than a knife If I tell the one I seek I may save her life. (She is in distress) HARTRIGHT:Please you needn't fear me truly you can trust me I would never harm you I'm no threat-I am Walter... Walter Hartright. I'll help you to get home. ANNE:I've no home at all nothing but my secret I have just my secret. (Hartright reaches out and gently takes her hand. The noise of a pony and chaise approaching. She breaks away) ANNE:There's someone coming! And I must get away- I have to get away! But can I trust you? (She moves off toward the tunnel) HARTRIGHT:Don't go in there! He said there's danger on the line ANNE:(echoing)I'll tell my secret for secrets must be told (She disappears back into the tunnel. A servant enters) SERVANT:You must be Mister Hartright? HARTRIGHT:Yes SERVANT:I'm sent to bring you straight to Limm'ridge House. HARTRIGHT:Did you see her? A woman,dressed in white. SERVANT:I saw no one HARTRIGHT:A woman all in white? SERVANT:Sir,I saw no one I saw no one. (The servant picks up Hartright's bags and exits with them. Hartright looks around and then exits after him. The light is beginning to dawn on a new day)ngenuity.
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