ABSTRACT
MARLENE notices GRISELDA. MARLENE: Griselda! / There you are. Do you want to eat? GRISELDA: I’m sorry I’m so late. No, no, don’t bother. MARLENE: Of course it’s no bother. / Have you eaten? GRISELDA: No really, I’m not hungry. MARLENE: Well have some pudding. GRISELDA: I never eat pudding. MARLENE: Griselda, I hope you’re not anorexic. We’re having pudding, I
am, and getting nice and fat. GRISELDA: Oh if everyone is. I don’t mind. MARLENE: Now who do you know? This is Joan who was Pope in the
ninth century, and Isabella Bird, the Victorian traveller, and Lady Nijo from Japan, Emperor’s concubine and Buddhist nun, thirteenth century, nearer your own time, and Gret who was painted by Brueghel. Griselda’s in Boccaccio and Petrarch and Chaucer because of her extraordinary marriage. I’d like profiteroles because they’re disgusting.
