INTRODUCTION SCENE
Maria meets Captain von Trapp.
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Captain: | In the future, you will kindly remember that there are certain rooms in this house which are not to be disturbed
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Maria: | Yes captain, sir
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Captain: | Why do you stare at me that way?
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Maria: | Well, you don't look at all like a sea captain, sir
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Captain: | I'm afraid you don't look very much like a governess.
Turn around please
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Maria: | What?
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Captain: | Hmp, turn.
Hat -- off.
Sss -- it's the dress, you'll have to put on another one before you meet the children
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Maria: | But I don't have another one.
When we entered the abbey, our worldly clothes were given to the poor
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Captain: | What about this one?
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Maria: | Well, the poor didn't want this one
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Captain: | Hmm..
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Maria: | Well I would have made myself a new dress but there wasn't time.
I can make my own clothes
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Captain: | Well, let's see that you get some materials, today if possible.
Now, Fraulein uhm...?
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Maria: | Maria, sir
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Captain: | Fraulein Maria, I don't know how much the Mother Abbess' told you
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Maria: | Not much
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Captain: | You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come to look after my children since their mother died. I trust you will be an improvement than the last one, she stayed only - two hours
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Maria: | What's wrong with the children, sir?
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Captain: | There's nothing wrong with the children, only the governesses. They were completely unable to maintain discipline, without it, this house cannot be properly run, will you please remember that, Fraulein.
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Maria: | Yes, sir
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Captain: | Every morning you will drill the children in their studies, I will not permit them to dream away their summer holidays. Each afternoon they will march about the grounds breathing deeply. Bedtime is to be strictly observed - no exceptions...
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Maria: | Excuse me, sir, when do they play?
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Captain: | You will see to it that they conduct themselves at all times with the utmost orderliness and decorum, I'm placing you in command
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Maria: | Yes, sir!
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