S&S Lucy Steele - FINAL

[Intro] [piano] [female] [spoken] Lucy Steele, engaged to Edward for the past four years? [verse] Insane --- insane – the whole of it’s insane. I won’t believe it – I can’t receive it --- It’s all insane, impossible --- monstrously unreal For my Edward to be in love with Lucy Steele. Engaged indeed – it cannot be Not Edward – no – he’d never stoop so low. And yet, and yet, she seems to know So many things of Edward’s life -- Is it possible, --- or impossible, --- he’d want her for a wife. For you see ---- There’s never been, a man like him. without a twin, both kith and kin It is him and he would never treat me ill. Yet I must believe it, And yet, I cannot conceive it. It is him – It is him – It is Edward, I love him still. Four years engaged, so Lucy says, I must know more, of what she’s read. She claimed he wrote her, every week. To keep their secret, they dared not meet. Then she showed a letter In Edward’s hand. I nearly died I could barely stand. Then she showed a picture from her pocket It was a miniature of Edward in a locket. I nearly fainted how was it painted Did it prove what Lucy dictated? I couldn’t speak – I was too weak And in that moment Of disbelief, Lucy said, I must! --- their great secret keep ---- I must --- I must ---their great secret keep. With spinning head and buckled knees, I said “you may depend upon it please-- Your secret’s safe with me.” [end] Your great secret --- Oh my God --- is safe --- with me.