Oh, look at your shadow!
[_Mlle. Perrault turns and sees her shadow on the wall._
I can make a bigger one than that.
MARY
Oh, come on, ma'mselle, let's all make shadows.
[_The three of them stand in front of the wall._
JOHN III
Boy, you come, too.
MLLE. PERRAULT
Come, boy.
[_Jonathan joins them standing so that his deformity doesn't show in the shadow._
Now, let's dance--Give me your hand--so.
[_The four dance, while Mlle. Perrault hums "All on a Summer's Day." They are having a very good time when Susan and Albert enter._
_Jonathan is a little conscious of Susan and Albert, and he manages to make several awkward moves._
MLLE. PERRAULT
Now, let's make everybody's shadow dance by itself.
MARY
Oh, come on.
JOHN III
You first, Mlle.
MARY
It's your turn, Mlle.
[_Mlle. Perrault stands before the wall and makes a very lovely shadow._
John, you do it now.
JOHN III
I won't. I'm going to be next to last.... He's going to be last.
[_Mary makes a pretty "statue."_
MARY
Now, John--
[_John III, holding a staff, stands bow-legged and pigeon-toed._
_All of them laugh._
MLLE. PERRAULT (_to John III_)
You little Jackanapes! You!
JOHN III (_to Jonathan_)
You can't do that.
[_Jonathan, still conscious of Susan, but more in the spirit of the game nevertheless, laughs almost gleefully._
JONATHAN
You just wait.
[_He stands in front of the wall and does some comical movements with his feet and legs, then he turns in such a way that for the first time the shadow of his hump is thrown into a pitiful distortion on the wall. He doesn't see it at first, for he is lost in the game with the children._
JOHN III (_yelling suddenly_)
Oh, look!
[_The children laugh immoderately, and Jonathan turns his head quickly, but in so doing alters the shadow. He smiles joyfully and then once more falls into the distorted picture._
MARY
Ooh--
JOHN III
That's funnier than mine.
[_Jonathan turns his head this time and sees the full horror of the thing._
_Mlle. Perrault and Susan have realized too late to protect Jonathan._
MLLE. PERRAULT
John! Mary! Tell the little boy good-bye. We must go.