Housekeeper: -With pleasure.

Housekeeper’s wife: -(enters the room with a tea tray) Sorry, we have no coffee but a cup of hot black tea with lemon would be much better now.

Housekeeper : -Thank you, darling. (the pause)

Housekeeper’s wife: -You are welcome. …So, gentlemen (smiles)… (the pause) Have a nice treat! Tea, sugar, some biscuits….Mr. Otis, just think, …only 2 million dollars with 20 percent discount and the castle is yours.

Mr.Otis: - 20 percent discount? – Hm…. (thinking).. Such a big discount?

Housekeeper and his wife together:- Yes!!!

Mr.Otis:- But it’s strange…

Housekeeper’s wife: -I’m sure if you buy this castle, every evening you’ll have an excellent opportunity to sit in a comfortable armchair in front of the fireplace and relax after the hard working day and… (Sounds of a Ghost interrupt her words)- AAAAAHHHH… …PAUSE…

Mr. Otis:- What’s this????? ****** the PAUSE

Housekeeper and his wife together :-Ummm…..nothing!

Mr.Otis:-Nothing?

Housekeeper: - It’s the wind…. The autumn wind sounds like a voice of the ghost or something like this.

Mr.Otis :- The wind…..A voice of the ghost (ironically)……(makes a pause) Um- Ha-Ha, … A voice of the ghost…….Look,… Mr…(forgets)

Housekeeper and his wife together:-. Windsor!!

Mr.Otis: -Yes, Mr. Windsor!I am the American businessman, I don’t believe in ghosts.The only thing in which I believe and trust is my business, my success and my money. Of course, I will buy this old Castle with the ghost in it (ironically)… - A voice of a ghost…Um-ha-ha-ha …(Sounds of a Ghost interrupt his words)- AAAAAHHHH… …PAUSE…) -..Umm!...Gosh!…Again this terrible sound…

Housekeeper: - So…, Mr. Otis. (starts his excursion), you can see the bedroom, the dance hall (imitates dancing with his wife Mr. Otis likes this idea and he joins them),……(the PAUSE) and a big room for guests. (Comes up to the entrance door). Now through this door we can go to…(opens it and sees the ghost)- (says nothing but with a frightened face and big eyes shuts the door)….. pause…- N-nn-n-ot through this door, let’s go through another one…..

Housekeeper’s wife: (OST by I. Korneliuk ‘Love Theme’):Mr. Otis. Believe you in ghosts or not, anyway you should know a mystery of the Castle, this is the reason for such a big discount of 20 percent. The Ghost of the Lord Windsor /ʹwinzə/ lives here. It appears at any place and any time it wants. For 300 years nothing has changed. From the morning …till the evening… you can hear it. I can’t….Sorry….I always mourn /mɔ:n/ when I say this…, But… but… at night (sobs) it’s so unhappy…it never sleeps, Lord Windsor is so lonely and unhappy (cries), …poor Lord Windsor … poor Lord Windsor … . But we can’t help our Lord.

Housekeeper: -Mr. Otis! The Ghost of the Lord Windsor has been the only master of the castle for more than 300 years, you can’t change anything, but if you and your family members are friendly to it, everything will be OK.Only girls under the age of 15 can see the ghost. Nobody else…, only girls.I also can see the ghost of the Lord Windsor because in my veins /veinz/ I have the blood /blʌd/ of the famous Windsor dynasty /ʹdinəsti/.

Housekeeper’s wife:-There is a legend and belief that one day, one little American girl will understand the Ghost and help it.Only then the Ghost of the Lord Windsor will leave the Castle.

Mr.Otis: -A voice of the ghost… (getting irritated), Windsor,… dynasty……., only one little American girl…… Gosh! It’s nonsense. OK, I’ll buy this Castle. We want to live here. Let’s go and make the deal.

Housekeeper: -With pleasure.

Date: 2016-01-14; view: 815