[While he's out, she fiddles with the gramophone. She only has one record that she can play on it, but she's played it over and over, so that she knows exactly where to set it to get what part of the waltz.]
[She plays it now, because it makes her feel happy, and because it's fun to do things with music playing. It's right as Ben comes back that she realizes how long it's been since she did anything purely for its own sake, because it makes her happy - since long before her father's obsession with protecting her became violent. She did things for other people, to save face, to cope with the tension and wrong-feeling-ness of her own home, but not just because.]
[So she seems a little off-kilter when she catches Ben's expectant look and steps toward him hesitantly, but catches herself on the upbeat (-two-three), smiling at him by the next bar. She's doing things for herself now.]
[She takes the French knife and lays it next to Ben's pumpkin, then points a vague circle around the stem.]
You have to cut the lid off. Like the lid of a jar. Not gently, but carefully.
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[She plays it now, because it makes her feel happy, and because it's fun to do things with music playing. It's right as Ben comes back that she realizes how long it's been since she did anything purely for its own sake, because it makes her happy - since long before her father's obsession with protecting her became violent. She did things for other people, to save face, to cope with the tension and wrong-feeling-ness of her own home, but not just because.]
[So she seems a little off-kilter when she catches Ben's expectant look and steps toward him hesitantly, but catches herself on the upbeat (-two-three), smiling at him by the next bar. She's doing things for herself now.]
[She takes the French knife and lays it next to Ben's pumpkin, then points a vague circle around the stem.]
You have to cut the lid off. Like the lid of a jar. Not gently, but carefully.
[Or you'll ruin the meat.]