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Ariel: [Shaw is busily typing in his den, Ariel is in the next room over, studying... Shaw is playing classical music in the background] Daddy? I don't know what came over me.
Reverend Shaw Moore: You know I can't always be with you, Ariel. I can't always look out for you.
Ariel: [getting up and walking to the den] What's the music?
Reverend Shaw Moore: [preoccupied] Oh, it's uh, I think it's Haydn. A chamber piece.
Ariel: And that kind of music is OK?
Reverend Shaw Moore: [somewhat defensive] Well, it's uplifting... it doesn't confuse people's minds and bodies.
Ariel: I don't...
Reverend Shaw Moore: [annoyed] What?
Ariel: I see.
Reverend Shaw Moore: [he calls out to her after she leaves the room] Listen, could you tell your mother to go on to bed? I still have a lot of work to do down here.
Ariel: I will.
[she re-enters the den]
Ariel: Daddy?
Reverend Shaw Moore: [not looking up] What is it?
Ariel: [disheartened] Good night.
Reverend Shaw Moore: Good night, honey.
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Ariel: [to her father, the town preacher] I just don't know that I believe in everything you believe in. But I believe in you.
Marcia Dangerfield
Extended Reading
