2:38:00
# Like breathing out and breathing in #
2:38:03
# I was serenely independent and content
Before we met #
2:38:07
# Surely I could always be that way again #
2:38:12
# And yet I've grown
Accustomed to her looks #
2:38:17
# Accustomed to her voice #
2:38:19
# Accustomed to her face ##
2:38:37
Marry Freddy.
2:38:39
What an infantile idea. What a heartless,
wicked, brainless thing to do.
2:38:43
But she'll regret it. She'll regret it.
2:38:46
It's doomed before they even take the vow!
2:38:50
## I can see her now
Mrs. Freddy Eynsford-Hill #
2:38:54
# In a wretched little flat above a store #
2:38:57
# I can see her now, not a penny in the till #
2:39:00
# And a bill collector beating at the door #
2:39:03
# She'll try to teach the things I taught her #
2:39:06
# And end up selling flowers instead #
2:39:09
# Begging for her bread and water #
2:39:11
# While her husband has
his breakfast in bed #
2:39:17
# In a year or so
when she's prematurely gray #
2:39:21
# And the blossom in her cheek
has turned to chalk #
2:39:25
# She'll come home and lo
he'll have upped and run away #
2:39:28
# With a social-climbing heiress
from New York #
2:39:31
# Poor Eliza #
2:39:32
# How simply frightful #
2:39:34
# How humiliating #
2:39:36
# How delightful #
2:39:40
# How poignant it will be
On that inevitable night #
2:39:43
# When she hammers on my door
In tears and rags #
2:39:46
# Miserable and lonely
Repentant and contrite #
2:39:50
# Will I take her in
Or hurl her to the wolves? #
2:39:53
# Give her kindness
Or the treatment she deserves? #
2:39:56
# Will I take her back
Or throw the baggage out? #