Scene 5
[At the dinner table]
[Before Jim comes]

Marybeth: Everyone, I’ve invited a young man named Jim to dinner with us.
Grace: You mean a real gentleman is coming to dinner with us?
May: Gentleman! That nerdy guy on the deck wasn’t a gentleman; he didn’t even say “Hi!” or smile!
Marybeth: May you’re exaggerating! May—Uh!
Marybeth: Here he comes! Shhh!
[Jim enters]
Marybeth: Good Evening! [Smiling]
[May staring at Jim in disgust]
Jim: Hello!
Diana: Me Diana, who you?
Marybeth: Uh, Jim these are my sisters May, Grace and Diana. You already know my brother Michael.
[Michael Waves]
Narrator: When they were almost halfway through their dinner, May decided that it was just too crowded at the table and she needed to make some more room.
Jim: Will you excuse me. I have to go to the bathroom.
May: Me too.
[Jim walks out of bathroom. May spying on him]
[May pulls Grace out of dining room]
Grace: What? Jim just came back!
May: I was just spying on Jim and he is a total dork!
Grace: I think he’s handsome! I wish he wasn’t friend with that rich girl Angeline!
May: Rich Girl? That’s it! Grace you’re a genius!
Grace: It took you long enough!
May: If Jim is friends with a rich family, then that means he’s rich!
Grace If Marybeth marries Jim we could be rich! I think we’ve got something here.
May: Come on, we’ve got work to do!
[May and Grace go back to dining room]
Jim: Well, it’s getting late. I’d better go. Good-by! See you tomorrow! Thanks for having me.
Marybeth: You’re welcome! Bye.
Diana: BuBye Jimmy!
[Jim leaves]
Marybeth: May, Grace I’ll put Diana to bed. Don’t stay up too late!
Grace: We won’t!
Scene 5 cont.

[Marybeth and Diana go off stage]
Grace: May, we need to write a love note that would convince Jim that Marybeth likes him!
May: Let’s get to work!
Narrator: The two girls thought long and hard until they wrote the best love note ever. When they were finished they crawled into their beds and fell fast asleep. Just a little after midnight May woke up.
May: Grace, Grace Wake up!
Grace: Five more minutes mommy.
May: Oh Grace, come on!
[They walk to Jim’s bed]
Grace: Oh look! He’s sleeping like a baby.
May: Shhh! Quiet, you’ll wake him up! I hope this works!
[Puts down note]
Grace: Don’t worry all my ideas always do.







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