Andrew Lloyd Webber
All For Laura
[MARIAN]
Inner voices
Keeping me awake
Will I ever sleep again
Reassessing
Everything I've done
Choices that I can't explain
All for Laura
This is what I prayed
All for Laura
Have I betrayed you?
With our old life
Ever out of reach
Look at what I've led you to
God forgive me
Look at what I've done
Look how I protected you
All for Laura
Shouldn't I have known?
I know one thing
We are alone now
I sent away the man
The man that we could trust
The only man that we both love
All for Laura
Was it really you
Who I was thinking of?
All for Laura
But at the start
Were you foremost in my heart?
All for Laura
That's how I'll live
Till I save you
Till you forgive me
I'll dedicate my life
I swear upon my soul
I'll find a way to set you free
All for Laura
Till my dying breath
Long as you're in need of me
I will somehow
Learn to be strong
I will live
To right
This wrong
(Anne Catherick appears behind her and overhears what she says)
[ANNE]
I will help you
[MARIAN]
Oh!
[ANNE]
I can help you both
He must never win again
[MARIAN]
It's you!
[ANNE]
I can trust you
And I have a way
We can stop this evil man
[MARIAN]
It's amazing
I see her face!
[ANNE]
I have come here
To save your sister
[MARIAN]
Oh, thank you!
[ANNE]
Tomorrow, at this time
Bring her here to me
But promise that you'll be alone
I've a secret
And when it is told
It will surely bring him down
[MARIAN]
Tell me now, please!
[ANNE]
Only for Laura...
(Anne disappears.)
(Suddenly Fosco appears. Marian jumps.)
[FOSCO]
Miss Halcombe! Forgive me. I didn't mean to startle you. I saw your room was empty: I thought, you must be out here counting your English sheep! Dico bene?
[MARIAN]
I couldn't sleep
[FOSCO]
Wandering about in the dark—and without the aid of a coat! Tut, tut. You English ladies are so reckless with your midnight flitting! You must allow me to accompany you home
[MARIAN]
Oh, really, there's no need
[FOSCO]
You're shivering, Miss Halcombe. Per piacere—take my arm
[MARIAN]
Thank you
(They leave together)