SCHEDULE MAN (SPOKEN): Uuuh! We’re late, late, late! We have 20, maximum 22 minutes, for your royal fitting. And then it’s move, move, move to your speech at the historical society! After that we have to rush, and I mean rush, to the horticultural-society- Ugh... Well, then there's your math lessons, your geography lessons, your science lessons...
ANNELIESE: All my life I've always wanted to have one day just for me: nothing to do and for once nowhere I need to be, with lessons, lords, or lunches or to-do list in the way, no one to say when to eat or read or leave or stay... That would be the day...
ERIKA: All my life I've always wanted to have one day for myself: not waking up with a of work on every shelf, with no hems in need of pressing and no sleeves in no wedding gown with a thousand stitches to crochet... And no debt to pay...
*SPOKEN* ERIKA: Huh! Madame Carp! MADAME CARP: What do you think I’m running here? A cabaret? ERIKA: I would have said a debtor’s prison. MADAME CARP: Keep laughing. You’ll be for me for another 37 years. ERIKA: But I've already paid off more than a half. MADAME CARP: But there’s interest, isn’t there? Your parents should have thought of that before they borrowed so much. ERIKA: They did it to feed me. MADAME CARP: Their mistake.
ERIKA: What would it be like to be... ANNELIESE: What would it be like to be... Free...?
ANNELIESE: Free to try crazy things ERIKA: Free from endless IOU's (i owe you) ANNELIESE: Free to fly ERIKA: Free to sing ANNELIESE: And marry whom I choose.
*SPOKEN* QUEEN: I’m so sorry, my darling, but as you know it is vital that you marry King Dominic. It is the only way take care of our people. ANNELIESE: I know. It’s my duty. QUEEN: Ah! And look, another engagement gift!
ANNELIESE: You would think that I'm so that I have so many things I'm realizing that every present comes with strings ERIKA: Though I know I have so little, my determination's strong People will gather around the world to hear my song... WOMAN: Can I come along?
ANNELIESE: Now I fear I'll never be... Soon I will forever be... BOTH: Free
BOTH: I close my eyes and feel myself fly a thousand miles away. I could take flight but would it be right? My conscience tells me stay.
ANNELIESE: I'll remain forever royal. ERIKA: I'll repay my parent's debt. BOTH: Duty means doing the things your heart may well regret. ANNELIESE: But never stop believing. ERIKA: She can never stop my schemes. BOTH: There's more to living than gloves and gowns and threads and seams. In my dreams, I'll be free.