Enconters

Scene 4
*Clara is asleep*
-Rollercoaster-
FATHER: Oh Clara, sweet Clara. You were an accident you know, an out-of-theblue
baby, as Elisabeth said. Such a privilege, (sneered) but such a little brat.
Never have a child to save a marriage; well you're mother learnt that too late.
And she never even had to deal with you. Elisabeth. She was pathetic, weak; you
both had similar qualities, putting on this independent woman front but always
ruled by men; needing to be ruled by men. Your mother let herself be defined by
men her whole life: father, brothers, boyfriends and then (halts suddenly) ... me.
Of all the boys at that godforsaken dance she chose me. And I did love her, I did.
J
And she was smart and funny and she had this way of looking at a person, as if
you were her whole world. Then my job was made redundant and my brothers
were off making their fortune and I was just so ... angry. I could see that other men
were interested in her, of course they were. I took it out on her while she would
just stand there, smiling sadly. The look never left her eyes in all that time. Until
one day, you were two and crying and you just wouldn't stop crying and I shouted
at you, raised my hand and heard a cry. She was looking at me and ... it wasn't
there. That one look which always brought me to my senses, which made me feel
as if it wasn't the end of the entire universe, was gone. And it broke me ... (Longer