Stage light is slightly dimmed, spotlight on Frances, Rachel, and Eliza. Other actors freeze. Music is played in the back to enhace the tension and suspense while Frances speaks.)
Frances: Once Lizzie Borden was entertaining friends of hers and Mrs. Borden’s cat kept walking in the room.
Rachel: Mrs. Borden’s cat? S It’s too sweet
Eliza: I agree.
Frances: Sweet it was; and each time Lizzie put the car out, sure enough, in he’d come again.
(Stage lights dim as Frances speaks, spotlight on Frances)
Frances: Lizzle Borden finally excused herself and went downstairs taking the cart with her—She put the poor thing on the chopping-block
Eliza: Gasps
Rachel: No!
(Rachel runs off to left wing)
Frances: and chopped its head off.
(Eliza drops a plate in her hand and screams)
Frances: Mrs. Borden wondered for days where the cat was—all she talked about. Finally Lizzie said, “You go downstairs and you’ll find your cat.”
(Spotlight off, main lights come on)
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