Henrietta Lines Part 3

• ANNIE: Thank you.

  What. Was that?
• WILLIAMINA: Is it wrong that I like him a wee bit more because of that? 'Cause I quite enjoyed that little fluster. Speaking of, has he proposed yet?

  What? What?
• ANNIE: Williamina.

  To me? No. What? No.
• WILLIAMINA: Pinchy.

  Pinchy? Who's pinchy? No. We've talked about this. Marry? You’re not married. You’re not married. Nobody's married. Why is this an issue?
• WILLIAMINA: Not unless you admit it, prove me right, and live

  happily ever after.

  Oh god.
• ANNIE: Pinchy.

  Is pinchy good or bad?
• ANNIE: She had one.

  You did?
• ACT 1 SCENE 4

  Miss Cannon. I'm so sorry.
• ANNIE: Nono. I'm sorry.

  I take it out when I work.
• ANNIE: Of course. Carry on. Forgot my gloves.

  Oh no, I was leaving.
• ANNIE: No, I'm leaving. I just came for my hat.

  Your gloves.
• ANNIE: My gloves.

  Please don't think I sit here all night crying.
• ANNIE: May I see what you sit here all night doing?

  The Cepheids. Of course.
• ANNIE: You certainly have a knack for finding them.

  But I'm finding that finding them isn't really worth much if they don't mean anything. And right now they don't.
• ANNIE: They might.

  I'm going on two thousand of them. And I'm starting to think it's like counting grass. You can count it, but why?
• ANNIE: I do know the feeling. Show me what you've found.

  The left side is a list of Cepheids arranged by fastest period of brightness. The middle column is their spectral class but I think I need to change it to luminosity because I'm not coming up with anything. There's no pattern.
• ANNIE: No there's not.

  I've wasted so much time on this.
• ANNIE: Miss Leavitt-

  I really thought I could sense something in the numbers. Really feel there was something important we weren't connecting, but no-
• ANNIE: Miss Leavitt.

  Twelve notebooks packed, staring at me, loose ends all loose and nothing to show and no meaning and nothing, nothing makes any damn sense.
• ANNIE: Henrietta.

  Excuse my language.
• ANNIE: You're close. Keep working. Think about how you're thinking. It's in there.

  Should I ask Dr. Pickering?
• ANNIE: No.

  Mr. Shaw.
• ANNIE: Oh no. This one's yours.

  Thank you.
• ANNIE: Miss Leavitt, I think you're in the middle of it.

  Of what?
• ANNIE: That chance.

  Oh my God.
• PETER: Oh my God. Not to worry.

  This is just-
• PETER: Imposition, so sorry.

  This is-
• PETER: My fault completely.

  This is so exciting! She's right. I push through it, charge through it, matter of time - I know the answer is there - I just keep going. Right? Yes! Hi.
• PETER: Hello. I just came by for my...hat.

  Oh.
• PETER: My gloves-left my gloves-and I saw the light and I thought, "Well I wonder how all the spanking is going."

  Might we all agree to another name for that?
• PETER: I think that's for the best.

  Mr. Shaw, I know I shouldn't be here this late.
• PETER: Actually, I'd prefer it-much prefer it-if you called me by my given name. Peter. Would be-nicer, nice.

  Oh. Henrietta.
• PETER: Good. Found them. Miss-Henrietta-I-I don't know anything about you really and-and that's a shame. So. Might I know something about you? Now. Would be nice.

  Oh. I grew up in Lancaster, family in Wisconsin, my hearing's not great, and I used my dowry to get here, which is why I'm a bit zealous about all this.
• PETER: Ah.

  And I play the clarinet. Not well.
• PETER: I play also. Also not well.

  Then we could be terrible together! I mean - that's not what I mean. I have a habit of blurting.
• PETER: And I have a Dachshund. Named Carl. Which is fun. Carl awaits. Sorry. Hat. I think that...you might be quite...marvelous. I think that. Often.

  Oh that is not standard.
• PETER. There's an ocean liner leaving tomorrow-You should be on it-I'll be on it-I'm saying come with me-to Europe-You don't have to decide now -but close to now because the liner leaves tomorrow-· I said that-Pack warmly-cold at night-We might stop in Spain-And there's dancing and lobster and water and moonlight and bobbing around and that's romantic-or sickening -Either way there'll be an eclipse. Which is fun.

  I ... oh my ... yes, that sounds ... very interesting.
• PETER: Interesting?

  Incredible.
• PETER: Oh good.

  If it weren't on a boat.
• PETER: You don't like boats? I didn't think of that.

  No, I just can't leave my work. I'm very close to something and-