Scenes with Marguerite
6 scenes
M Marguerite
I said I want four minute eggs. Not four one minute eggs, and where in GOD'S NAME is our bread?
Marguerite, precious, what do I always say to you about tone?
A lady of breeding ought never to raise her voice any louder than the... gentle hum of a whispering wind.
Jacqueline, dear, do not speak unless you can improve the silence.
M Marguerite
I was not shrill,mother. I was resonant. A courtier knows the difference.
I very much doubt your style of resonance would be permitted in the Royal Court.
M Marguerite
I'm not going to the Royal Court, am I, Mother? No one is, except some Spanish pig they have the nerve to call a princess.
Darling, nothing is final until you're dead, and even then, I'm sure God negotiates.
I don't believe you. You're hiding something from me, I can feel it. I demand to know what it is.
Why don't you tell me so I can go back to sleep?
M Marguerite
What about our breakfast?
You have two hands, make it yourself.
M Marguerite
Why you lazy little leech!
Jacqueline, go and boil some water.
Me? Boil water?... Oh, I knew it! I just knew it!
Of all the insidious jokes, turning your mother into a Countess. Why it's almost as absurd as a prince who spends his days with a peasant who sleeps with pigs.
What bothers you more, stepmother? That I am common? Or that I am competition?
Where is the dress, Danielle?!
I don't know what you're talking about.
M Marguerite
The gown, the slippers, they were in my room this morning, and now they're gone. You hid them I know it!
Where did you put the gown, Danielle?
Where are the candlesticks, and the tapestries, and the silver?! Perhaps the dress is with them!
You will produce that gown!
I would rather die a thousand deaths than to see my mother's dress on that spoiled, selfish cow!
Baroness, did you - or did you not - lie to Her Majesty, the Queen of France?
Choose your words wisely, madame, for they may be your last.
A woman would practically do anything for the love of a daughter, Your Majesties. Perhaps I did get a little carried away.
M Marguerite
Mother! What have you done? Your Majesty, like you, I am just a victim here. She has lied to us both and I am ashamed to call her family.
[pushes her]
How dare you turn on me, you little ingrate!
M Marguerite
You see? You see what I have to put up with?
Silence, both of you! Good Lord! [to Jacqueline] Are they always like this?
Jacqueline, darling, I hate to think you had anything to do with this.
[sarcastically]
Of course not, Mother. I'm only here for the food.
LR Laundry Room Supervisor
(to Marguerite and Rodmilla)
After you wash the table cloths, you can start on the napkins and moves those over there.
M Marguerite
Like Hell you are! You're just the same as me a big nobody!
How dare you speak to me that way! I am of noble blood!
LR Laundry Room Supervisor
And YOU are getting on my nerves! (throws a pile of table cloths at Marguerite and Rodmilla and the two fall back into a vat of water while the other servants laugh at them) Heh, heh NOW get to work !
Marguerite gets to do everything.
M Marguerite
Oh, don't be daft, the Queen doesn't even know you exist.
What Marguerite does is for all of us, my dear. We are counting on you to help her get ready.
[sardonically]
Lovely. Next thing you know I shall be cleaning the fireplace with Danielle!
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