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In a dream of new dresses,<br />

Red ribbons and silken laces!<br />

I envy her ability to sleep.<br />

(She shakes her.)<br />

Maja! Maja Please wake up!<br />

MAJA (starts).<br />

Help me! What is it? Oh, forgive me, Madam,<br />

I didn't know, I believe I have been asleep.<br />

CLARA.<br />

How dare you sleep, when your mistress is awake?<br />

Don't stand there like a marble statue!<br />

Do someth<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

Well, what shall I do?<br />

MAJA.<br />

CLARA.<br />

You are unbearable. Can't you at least<br />

Understand that I am bored this even<strong>in</strong>g?<br />

It is so dead here, so empty. I want to be enterta<strong>in</strong>ed.<br />

What are you made for other than to amuse?<br />

Invent someth<strong>in</strong>g! You understand! Now, what will it be?<br />

MAJA.<br />

Mother of God! Help this poor girl!<br />

I cannot read, or s<strong>in</strong>g, either,<br />

I have never learned the graceful arts<br />

To pass the time for a noble lady.<br />

I can only sew, curl hair and cook.<br />

Forgive me, Donna, but it is already late;<br />

What if you tried to go to bed?<br />

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