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(The whole is spoken)

(GIRY is hurrying across. RAOUL appears and after her)

Giry, wait. . .

Please, Monsieur - I no more than
else.

not true.

(uneasily)

Please, Monsieur, don't ask, have been too many accidents . . .

(ironical)

Accidents?! (She moves off again. He her) (desperately) Please, Madame Giry, for all our sakes . . .

GIRY (She has nervously about her and suddenly deciding to trust him, cuts in)

Very well. It was years ago. There was a
fair in the city. The gypsies. I was very young, studying to be a ballerina. One of many living in the of the opera house.
(There is a flashback of when Madame Giry is still very young and at the fair)

(The circus)

(Young Madame Giry's school is taking a to a traveling circus)

woman: See the wonder from the East!

Cruel man. Come. Come. Come inside. Come and see The Child.

(They all see Young Erik with a over his head, chained in a cage of straw. He is making a stuffed monkey playing the cymbals like the one on the musical box)

(All the children except for Young Giry laugh at Young Erik)

Cruel man. (Beats Erik with a stick) You damn demon! (Beats) Villain! (Beats) do-well! (Beats) Libertine! (Beats) Dangerous! (Beats) Hideous! (Beats) Monstrous! (Beats) BEAST! (Beats very hard)
(Young Erik groans in on the straw. Young Madame Giry looks sadly at Young Erik)
Cruel Man. Behold, Mesdames and messieurs, the Child! (He takes the sack off Young Erik's head, pulls the hair)

(All the kids Young Madame Giry laugh at him)

(Erik slowly puts the sack back on. When all the children free, the cruel man begins to count his money coins)

(Young Erik suddenly breaks free, grabs a rope and the he was chained too and strangles the cruel man)

(Erik his stuff monkey and takes Young Madame Giry's hand and they run out of the traveling circus)

Murder!

Policeman: way?!
Man: That way! way!
Policeman: getting away!

(Young Madame and Young Erik run all the way to a window of the Opera House)

(Young Giry puts Erik in the window)

(The House)
GIRY: (Narrating the story) I hid him the world, and its cruelties.
(Young Madame Giry enters another part of the room, Young Erik runs to her and she hides him)

Young Giry. If you in here, you are safe.

Young Erik. you so much, young lady.

(It goes to the real times)

GIRY: He has known nothing else of life since then except this opera house. I him Erik. It was his playground and now his artistic domain, he's a genius. He's an architect and designer, he'scomposer and amagician. A genius, Monsieur!

But clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness.