SCENE 1 (BALCONY W/ ROSE POTS)
CARMEN: Papa, and when will the 'long table' be set?
DON JULIAN: I don't know yet. Alfredo is not very specific, but
I understand Esperanza wants it to be next month.
CARMEN: (BUNTONG HININGA) Why is he not a bit more
decided, I wonder. He is over thirty, is he not?
And still a bachelor! Esperanza must be tired
waiting
DON JULIAN: She does not seem to be in much of a hurry either
(NAGUPIT BIGLA YUNG ROSE)
CARMEN: How can a woman be in a hurry when the man does
not hurry her? (INALIS YUNG BULATE SA ROSE) …
Papa, do you remember how much in love he was?
DON JULIAN: In love? With whom?
CARMEN: With Esperanza, of course. He has not had another
love affair that I know of…
What I mean is that at the beginning he was
enthusiastic--flowers, serenades, notes, and things
like that—
FLASHBACK…LESS THAN 4 YEARS AGO… MAY ISANG
ALFREDONG UHAW NA UHAW SA PAG-
IBIG NI ESPERANZA… MAY LOVE
LETTERS, HARANA, BULAKLAK…
INLABABOL SI KUYA
CARMEN: What do you think happened?
DON JULIAN: I supposed long-engaged people are like that;
warm now, cool tomorrow. I think they are oftener
cool than warm. The very fact that an engagement
has been allowed to prolong itself argues a certain
placidity of temperament--or of affection--on the
part of either, or both
That phase you were speaking of is natural enough
for a beginning. Besides, that, as I see it, was
Alfredo's last race with escaping youth—
CARMEN: TUMAWA NG MALAKAS
DON JULIAN: A last spurt of hot blood
SCENE 2
ALFREDO NAGPOPROJECT… MATIKAS, INTELIHENTE,
MAY SENSE OF HUMOR
………… LUMABAS NG BAHAY… NAGLAKAD PAPUNTA
SA PUNO NG ACACIA… PABALIK BALIK
SA GATE
PADUNGAW DUNGAW SA BAKURAN NG MGA
MARTINEZ (NIRERENTAHAN NI JUDGE
DEL VALLE)
ISANG GABI… NANGAPITBAHAY SI ALFREDO KASAMA
SI DON JULIAN
DON JULIAN: A little mental relaxation now and then is
beneficial------
Besides, a judge's good will, you know------
(PAUSE) is worth a rising young lawyer's trouble
(SMILE)
NAKASALUBONG NILA SA PINTO (JULIA) HALATA NA
BAGONG DATING ITO SA BAHAY NA IYON
DAHIL MAINIT ANG PAGTANGGAP SA
KANYA NG MGA KASAMA.
Knock Knock
DAUGHTER: Papa! Don Julian and Atty. Alfredo is here
JUDGE DEL CALLE: Please Come in
DON JULIAN: (GREETING THE JUDGE WITH A
SMILE)What a lovely evening…
ALFREDO: Indeed!!! A new face… Isn’t she lovely?
DON JULIAN: Thank you for the warm welcome
ALFREDO: So… you just arrived MISS DEL VALLE?
JULIA: (SMILED)
WALANG NAGANAP NA PAGPAPAKILALA… AS
EXPECTED MAGKAKAKILALA NA SILA….
DI MAGKAMAYAW ANG MGA ANAK NG
JUDGE SA PAG ESTIMA KAY JULIA NA
KARARATING LANG GALING SA CITY
JUDGE DEL VALLE: She arrived yesterday… She is from the
city
ALFREDO: Which city did MISS DEL VALLE came from?
DON JULIAN: (COUGH.. COUGH…) Just to let you know, the
pretty young lady is not the judge’s sister but his
sister-in-law…. And by the way…. Her name is
JULIA SALAS
NAPAISIP SI ALFREDO… BAKIT KAYA HINDI SYA
TINATAMA NG BABAE GAYONG MALI
ANG TAWAG NIYA… NAPAHIYA NG
HUSTO… PARANG GUSTONG
MAGPALIWANAG
ALFREDO: My apologies MISS JULIA
JULIA: That is nothing, Each time I was about to correct you,
but I remembered a similar experience I had once before
ALFREDO: Oh! (GUMAAN ANG PAKIRAMDAM)
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JULIA: A man named Manalang--I kept calling him Manalo.
After the tenth time or so, the young man rose from his seat and ESPERANZA: If a man were married, of course, he loved his
said suddenly, 'Pardon me, but my name is Manalang, Manalang.' wife; if he were engaged, he could not possibly
You know, I never forgave him! love another woman

NAGTAWANAN SILANG DALAWA CARMEN: Oh well, I did not say a word ok?

JULIA: The best thing to do under the circumstances, I have SA DI KALAYUAN… NAKITA NI ESPERANZA SI
found out…. is to pretend not to hear, and to let CALIXTA NA MAY KASAMANG IBANG
the other person find out his mistake without LALAKI.
help.
ALFREDO: As you did this time. Still, you looked amused every
time I—
SCENE 5
JULIA: I was thinking of Mr. Manalang ISANG GABI MAGKASAMA SILA ALFREDO AT
JULIA… NANUNUOD NG MGA BITUIN
NAGLARO NG CHESS SILA DON JULIAN AT JUDGE DEL SA LANGIT
VALLE…. NAGSAWA MANUOD SI
ALFREDO…
INAYA NYA SI JULIA NA MAGKWENTUHAN SA
ALFREDO: It was so easy to forget up here, away from the
prying eyes of the world….. Up here I find
BALKONAHE… MAY TUMUTUGTOG NG PIANO SA
KAPITBAHAY…. AT NAG-IBA ANG MOOD DAHIL SA something….
MUSIC…. NAGTITIGAN SILA… HUMAGIKGIK NG MAHINHIN
SI JULIA
ALFREDO: (BUMUBULONG SA SARILI) could she sing; she
had such a charming speaking voice JULIA: Amusement?
PINAGMAMASDAN SI JULIA…
(BUMUBULONG SA SARILI) Hmmm she has similarities with ALFREDO: No... youth – its spirit—
Doña Adela, she is just taller and much darker
than her. JULIA: are you so old?
SCENE 3
ALFREDO: and heart’s desire
INSERT IMBENTONG SCRIPT NG LANDIAN NG MGA
HIGAD NAGIGING MAKATA SI ALFREDO…

ALFREDO: Down there……. the road is too broad, too trodden

SCENE 4
NAKAKAHALATA NA SI ESPERANZA NA IBA ANG
IKINIKILOS NI ALFREDO…
ESPERANZA: Have you gone home straight from mass?
ALFREDO: (BIGLANG NAREALIZE NA HINDI NA NIYA
SINUSUNDO SI ESPERANZA PAGTAPOS NG
MISA AT MAS SABIK NA
MANGAPITBAHAY)
I went home to work… (HINDI SANAY
MAGSINUNGALING… SABAY DUGTONG)
Sometimes I go with Papa to Judge de Valle’s
NANAHIMIK SI ESPERANZA… UMALIS SI ALFREDO NG
WALANG PAALAM….
CARMEN: Don’t you think my brother is acting strange lately
ESPERANZA: Ummmm maybe a bit strange but I wouldn’t care
much… I am not a jealous type of a lady you
know!
CARMEN: Well…. I just noticed he has been very busy these few
weeks
by feet, too barren of mystery
JULIA: Mystery--- that is so brief
ALFREDO: not in some – not in you
JULIA: You have known me a few weeks; so the mystery
ALFREDO: I could study you all my life….. and still not find it
JULIA: So long?
ALFREDO: I should like to.
NAPAKABILIS LUMIPAS NG 6 NA LINGGO… WALA
SILANG PAKIALAM SA KUNG ANO MAN ANG
KAHAPON O ANG MANGYAYARI BUKAS… ANG
MAHALAGA AY ANG NGAYON… SINUSULIT ANG
BAWAT SANDALI… MASYADONG INTENSE ANG
DAMDAMIN… NILALANGGAM… MAY SARILI
SILANG MUNDO
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 IPINAKITA NI DON JULIAN SA JUDGE ANG MGA
BATANG PUNO NG BUKO…
SCENE 6 MABERDE… MADAHON
BAGO MAG HOLY WEEK… BUMISITA MULI SI DON HABANG ANG MGA KABATAAN AY NAGSASAYA
JULIAN SA MGA DEL VALLE… SA MAY PAMPANG--- NAG-EENJOY
KONTING KWENTUHAN… (INSERT SA TUBIG
TSISMISAN NG KALALAKIHAN… SI ALFREDO… INIWAN ANG TUNGKOD SA MAY
HABANG NAGLALARO NG CHESS) KAWAYANG HAGDAN… NAGLALARO NG BUHANGIN
HABANG NAGLALAKAD,,, AT PINALIPAD ANG
DON JULIAN: I would like to invite your family to come TSINELAS SA BUHANGINAN
visit our place in Tanda
BIGLANG SUMULPOT SI JULIA SA HARAP NI ALFREDO
AT NGUMITI SA KANYA…
JUDGE DEL VALLE: We would like to see your coconut
plantation (SMILES)
ALFREDO: I hope you are enjoying this!
DON JULIAN: I am sure you will enjoy the ambiance near
the beach JULIA: Very much. It looks like home to me, except that we do
not have such a lovely beach
JUDGE DEL VALLE: Of course we will
HINAHANGIN ANG BUHOK NI JULIA HABANG
LUMILIPAD ANG KANYANG PALDA… TINITITIGAN SYA
DON JULIAN: Check mate!!! NI ALFREDO.. MANGHANG MANGHA SA ANGKING
KAGANDAHAN NG DALAGA.
JUDGE DEL VALLE: Hahaha you got me there Senior!
JULIA: The afternoon has seemed very short, hasn't it? (PAUSE
DON JULIAN: Let’s call it a Day! Haha (NAGPAALAM This, I think, is the last time--we can visit.
AT UMUWI NA)
ALFREDO: The last? Why? Oh, you will be too busy perhaps. .

SCENE 7 Do I seem especially industrious to you?

SA TANDA (BEACH)
NAGKAKASIYAHAN ANG MGA KABATAAN JULIA: If you are, you never look it…. Not perspiring or
(INCLUDING YUNG 4 NA ENERGETIC breathless, as a busy man ought to be.
NA ANAK NI CARMEN)
NAGKUKWENTUHAN SA KUSINA SI CARMEN AT But-- Always unhurried, too unhurried, and calm
DOÑA ADELA HABANG (NAPANGITI SA SARILI)
NAGHAHANDA NG MERIENDA
ALFREDO: I wish that were true (BUNTONG HININGA).
CARMEN: You know Seniora…. Ours husbands are very
much alike JULIA: (PAUSED FOR A WHILE) A man is happier if he is, as
you say, calm and placid….Like a carabao in a mud pool
DOÑA ADELA: Why did you say so?
ALFREDO: Who? I
CARMEN: My Vicente… he was so absorbed in his farms that
he would not even take time off to accompany me JULIA: Oh, no!
to visit my Papa
ALFREDO: You said I am calm and placid.
DOÑA ADELA: Well…. Dionisio… He was the most
absentminded of men, sometimes going out JULIA: That is what I think.
without his collar, or with unmatched socks.
ALFREDO: I used to think so too. Shows how little we know
ourselves.

AFTER MERIENDA… I should like to see your home town.

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JULIA: There is nothing to see--little crooked streets,
brownt roofs with ferns growing on them, and sometimes
squashes.
BIGLANG NAGBAGO ANG MOOD… PAKIRAMDAM NI
JULIA NAG_IISA SYA… PARANG WALA SI ALFREDO
ALFREDO: Nothing? There is you.
JULIA: Oh, me? But I am here.
ALFREDO: I will not go, of course, until you are there.
JULIA: Will you come? You will find it dull. There isn't even one
American there! Well--Americans are rather
essential to my entertainment (TUMAWA) We
live on Calle Luz, a little street with trees.
ALFREDO: Could I find that?
JULIA: If you don't ask for Miss del Valle (MAPANUKSONG
NGITI)
ALFREDO: I'll inquire about--
JULIA: What?
ALFREDO: The house of the prettiest girl in the town.
JULIA: There is where you will lose your way (BIGLANG
NAGING SERYOSO) Now, that is not quite sincere.
ALFREDO: It is (MABAGAL NA TUGON PERO MAY
EMPHATY)
JULIA: I thought you, at least, would not say such things.
ALFREDO: Pretty--pretty--a foolish word! But there is none
other more handy.. I did not mean that quite--
JULIA: Are you withdrawing the compliment?
ALFREDO: Re-enforcing it, maybe. Something is pretty when it
pleases the eye--it is more than that when--
JULIA: If it saddens? (BIGLANG DUGTONG SA SINASABI NI
ALFREDO)
ALFREDO: Exactly.
JULIA: It must be ugly.
ALFREDO: Always?
PAPALUBOG ANG ARAW… KULAY GINTO ANG
KALANGITAN
JULIA: No, of course you are right.
ALFREDO: Why did you say this is the last time? (BIGLANG
TUMALIKOD)
JULIA: I am going home…. The end of an impossible dream!
ALFREDO: When? (PAGKATAPOS NG MAHABANG
KATAHIMIKAN)
JULIA: Tomorrow. I received a letter from Father and Mother
yesterday. They want me to spend Holy Week at home.
(NAGHIHINTAY NA MAGSALITA SI ALFREDO)
That is why I said this is the last time.
ALFREDO: Can't I come to say good-bye?
JULIA: Oh, you don't need to!
ALFREDO: No, but I want to.
JULIA: There is no time.
KUMAGAT ANG DILIM… BAKAS ANG LUNGKOT SA
MUKHA NG DALAGA HABANG TINITINGNAN ANG
BINATA.
JULIA: Home seems so far from here. This is almost like another
life.
ALFREDO:I know. This is Elsewhere, and yet strange enough, I
cannot get rid of the old things.
JULIA: Old things?
ALDREDO: Oh, old things, mistakes, encumbrances, old
baggage. (MATAMLAY NA SAGOT… PILIT PINAPAHABA
ANG ORAS… PAMINSAN MINSAN AY HUMAHAWAK SA
KAMAY NI JULIA)
INILAPIT NI ALFREDO SA KANYANG KAMAY SA
KAMAY NG DALAGA.. PAGKAHAWAK NIYA.. INILAYO
NI JULIA ANG TINGIN… NAGPAALAM SA MAHINANG
BOSES ANG DALAGA….
JULIA: Goodbye…
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SCENE 8 NAKINIG NA TAHIMIK SI ALFREDO, PANSIN NIYA SA
BOSES NITO NA TILA NANLALAMIG AT FORMAL ANG
SA SIMBAHAN… NAGHIHINTAY SI ESPERANZA KAY PANANALITA
ALFREDO… KASAMA NIYA ANG KANYANG INA…
PALINGA-LINGA ANG TINGIN… ALFREDO: Are weddings interesting to you?

SI ALFREDO AY NASA GILID NG TINDAHAN NG MGA JULIA: When they are of friends, yes.
INTSIK… NATANAW NIYA SA HINDI KALAYUAN SI
JULIA… BIGLANG BUMILIS ANG TIBOK NG KANYANG ALFREDO: Would you come if I asked you?
PUSO AT TILA BA NABUHAY ANG KANYANG DUGO
JULIA: When is it going to be?
PAPATAPOS NA ANG PRUSISYON… PAPASOK NA ANG
POON SA SIMBAHAN KASUNOD ANG PARI AT ANG ALFREDO: May (PAUSE)
CHOIR… NARINIG ANG KAMPANA SA PAGSASARA NG
PRUSISYON.
JULIA: May is the month of happiness they say
NAPAKALIWANAG NG KULAY KAHEL NA BUWAN…
NALILIWANAGAN NITO ANG MGA BUBONG NG MGA ALFREDO: slowly, indifferently. "Would you come?
KABAHAYAN… ANG MGA KALALAKIHAN AT
KABABAIHAN AY NAGSITAMBAY SA KAHABAAN NG JULIA: Why not?
KALSADA. (CALLE REAL)
ALFREDO: No reason. I am just asking. Then you will?
SA DULO NG MGA TINDAHAN NG INTSIK… NAKAKITA
NG PAGKAKATAON SI ALFREDO UPANG KAUSAPIN SI JULIA: If you will ask me
JULIA. ALAM NI ALFREDO NA HINIHINTAY NA SIYA NI
ESPERANZA PERO MAS PINILI NIYANG GAMITIN ANG ALFREDO: Then I ask you.
MGA SANDALING IYON PARA MAKAUSAP SI JULIA.
JULIA: Then I will be there.
ALFREDO: Good evening! (SABAY LAPIT KAY JULIA) … I
had been thinking all this time that you had gone
PARANG NAWALA SA KAWALAN SI ALFREDO…
BINALOT NG KALUNGKUTAN.. MATINDING SAKIT ANG
(EXCITED PERO MAY NADARAMA SA KANYANG KALOOBAN… INIISIP NYA
PANGAMBA) NA SANA ANG BABAENG KAHARAP ANG MATAGAL NA
NIYANG PINAKASALAN.
JULIA: No, my sister asked me to stay until they are ready to go
ALFREDO: (BULONG SA SARILI) how I wish she is my long
ALFREDO: Oh, is the Judge going? wedded wife… (SAD REACTS)

JULIA: Yes Julia….. did you ever have to choose between something
you wanted to do and something you had to do?
KUNWARI HINDI ALAM NI ALFREDO NA NAIBA NG
DESTINO ANG JUDGE… PERO MATAGAL NA NIYA JULIA: No!
ITONG ALAM.
ALFREDO: I thought maybe you had had that experience; then
BINASAG NI JULIA ANG KATAHIMIKAN… you could understand a man who was in such a
situation… You are fortunate… (PAUSED…)
JULIA: Mr. Salazar…. I wish to congratulate you
JULIA: Is--is this man sure of what he should do?
(ANG TONO NG KANYANG BOSES AY
NAGPAPAHIWATIG NA ALAM NA NIYA) ALFREDO: I don't know, Julia. Perhaps not. But there is a point
where a thing escapes us and rushes downward of its
ALFREDO: For what? own weight, dragging us along. Then it is foolish to
ask whether one will or will not, because it no longer
JULIA: For your approaching wedding… I should have offered depends on him
congratulations long before, but you know mere visitors are slow
about getting the news

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JULIA: But then why--why—(MALAMYANG BOSES) Oh,
what do I know? That is his problem after all.
ALFREDO: Doesn't it--interest you?
JULIA: Why must it? I--I have to say good-bye, Mr. Salazar; we
are at the house.
HINDI NA LUMINGON AT TULUYANG LUMAYO SI JULIA
SCENE 9
SA SALA…. NAKAUPO SA SOFA SI ESPERANZA
ESPERANZA: (NAGPAPASARING KUNWARI AY MAY
KAUSAP SA PHONE)
I couldn’t imagine she’s been seeing another guy
(PAUSE… KUNWARI MAY SINABI YUNG
KAUSAP)
No! I am very sure of it… I saw it with my very own eyes
NAKIKINIG SI ALFREDO KAHIT HINDI LUBOS NA
MAUNAWAAN ANG USAPAN… NAG ASSUME NA SI
CALIXTA YUNG TOPIC… UPANG IPAALAM NA
NANDUON SIYA AY BIGLANG NAGSALITA
ALFREDO: Well, what of it? (MEDYO NAPALAKAS ANG
TONO NG BOSES)
ESPERANZA: She is not married to him (KABADONG BOSES)
Besides, she should have thought of us. Nanay
practically brought her up. We never thought she
would turn out bad
ALFREDO: What had Calixta done? Homely, middle-aged
Calixta?
ESPERANZA: You are very positive about her badness
ALFREDO: But do you approve?
ESPERANZA: Of what?
ALFREDO: What she did.
ESPERANZA: No
ALFREDO: Well? ….. All I say is that it is not necessarily
wicked.
ESPERANZA: Why shouldn't it be? You talked like an--immoral
man. I did not know that your ideas were like that.
ALFREDO: My ideas? ….. The only test I wish to apply to
conduct is the test of fairness. Am I injuring anybody? No? Then I
am justified in my conscience. I am right. Living with a man to
whom she is not married--is that it? It may be wrong, and again it
may not.
ESPERANZA: She has injured us. She was ungrateful.
ALFREDO: The trouble with you, Esperanza, is that you are----
ESPERANZA: Why do you get angry? I do not understand you at
all! I think I know why you have been indifferent to me lately. I
am not blind, or deaf; I see and hear what perhaps some are trying
to keep from me
NAG-AABANG SI ALFREDO NG SUSUNOD NA
SASABIHIN NI ESPERANZA
ESPERANZA: Why don't you speak out frankly before it is too
late? You need not think of me and of what people
will say (NANGINGINIG ANG BOSES)
ALFREDO: Yes… one tries to be fair--according to his lights--
but it is hard. One would like to be fair to one's self first. But that
is too easy, one does not dare--
ESPERANZA: What do you mean? ……Whatever my
shortcomings, and no doubt they are many in your
eyes, I have never gone out of my way, of my
place, to find a man.
DI MALAMAN KUNG PARA SA KANYA ANG MGA
PARINIG O SIMPLENG PAG ATAKE KAY JULIA.
ALFREDO: Esperanza-- If you--suppose I----
ESPERANZA: If you mean you want to take back your word, if
you are tired of--why don't you tell me you are tired of me?
(NANGINGINIG NA BOSES… PAK PAK GANERN…
HUMAGULGOL SABAY LAYAS)
SCENE 10
Ending Part: (The goodbye) Setting: House of Julia
Characters: Julia, Alfredo, Mother of Julia
Props: Candle, Hat of Alfredo, Sala (with chairs and table)
Costume: Alfredo- formal attire Julia and her mother-
Pambahay langs
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Julia sitting at their window. Looking at the sky.
ALFREDO: (outside of Julia's house) Good evening
(raising his hat)
JULIA: (surprise) Goodevening! Oh are you in town?
Nasa bintana si Julia nakadungaw lang siya. Si Alfredo nasa
labas ng bahay nila.
ALFREDO'S LINE TO SAY: Julia, you became my dream.
I dont know how long Ive come with that
dream. you were forever etch in my heart
because once upon a time you were the most
significant of my being. I want you to know
that Im happy with Esperanza. She is a
beautiful mother and a wife. Julia, My
feelings for you are dead stars. long gone Still
Theres a place in heaven. Good bye.

ALFREDO: Oh some little business Julia( Tinawag ang

kaniyang nanay) Mother mother! Alfredo is
here.
Pagbubuksan ng pintuan ng kaniyang nanay si Alfredo.

MOTHER: Come in come in attorney

Bababa si Julia mula sa taas na may dalang ilaw o gasera o

kandila. Maglalakad papalapit sa isat isa.
Matitinginan at uupo. He could not take his
eyes frim her face.

NARRATION INTERNAL OF ALFREDO: Was the lost is

mine or hers? Nagblush si Julia because of
his intent gaze.

ALFREDO: Calle Luz is splendid.

JULIA: I know you'll love it here. It is peaceful and quite.

ALFREDO: Yes it is (smiling)

Alfredo will hold Julia's hand tighter than before. He will

bow his head because he didnt feel anything
anymore.

Narrating: (Pwede itong naglalakad lakad si Alfredo at

nagiisip isip while may voice na nag narrate
or voice nalang din niya.)

"There were times when I couldnt stop to wonder: What is

life could have beeb with Julia?" For more
than 8 years she's never married anybody. For
all those years she's still in my mind.

Babalik sa present: Mula sa pagkakayuko titingnan niya si

Julia sa mata tapos yayakapin niya tapos mag
bid ng goodbye. Bibitaw unti unti at aalis na.
Mula sa paglalakad niya diba ay hihinto siya
tapos ay titingin sa kalangitan.

(kasunod nung sa narrating to) Much better with stars na

sana yung kalangitan.