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[last lines]
[as Cinderella prepares to try on the slipper]
Grand Duke: Come, my child.
[beckons to the Page Boy, who runs carrying the slipper. The stepmother sticks out her cane and trips him, causing the slipper to shatter into pieces]
Grand Duke: Oh, no! Oh, no, no. Oh, no. Oh, this is terrible. The King! What will he say?
[clutches throat]
Grand Duke: What will he *do*?
Cinderella: But, perhaps, if it would help...
Grand Duke: [sobbing] No, no, nothing can help now. Nothing!
Cinderella: [bringing out the other glass slipper] But, you see, I have the other slipper.
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[after the coach, the horses, etc. change back]
Cinderella: I'm sorry. I-I guess I forgot about everything, even the time, but... but it was so wonderful. And he was so handsome, and when we danced... oh, I'm sure that even the Prince himself couldn't have been more... more... Oh, well, it-it's over, and...
Jaq: Cinderelly. Look! Look! Your slipper. Your slipper.
Gus: Yeah. A slipper.
[the mice go on about the glass slipper still on her foot]
Cinderella: Oh!
[to the sky]
Cinderella: Thank you. Thank you so much for everything.
Ilene Woods
Extended Reading
