Our actress winces and knits her brows in concentration a moment, then steps forward slightly and opens her lips and in a powerful whisper, she exclaims...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh, no, it is an ever-fix�d mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand�ring bark,
Whose worth�s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love�s not Time�s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle�s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
She ends with a damp glint of truth, constancy, and a hint of defiance in her saucer widened blue eyes.