Room 317 [1989]

Kim

Good evening, ma'am

Ellen

Don't turn the bed yet

Kim

I'm not the maid

Ellen

What do you want then?

Kim

They must written the room number wrong

I am looking for someone named Christopher Scott

317...

Oh I'm sorry... unless

Well, you must be, of course your Jon's wife, are you not?

Ellen

Oh god I see, it had to happen

You must be Kim, Chris went to find you

Please come inside, no one will hurt you

I'm Chris' wife

My name is Ellen

In a way, I'm glad I am meeting you first

Understand you were only a name till tonight

I don't know how I feel if our roles were reversed

Won't you please sit down?

Kim

Tell me you are lying

Ellen

We've been married a year

I'm sorry it's true

Kim

He said he'd come to get me

Ellen

He said he tried to reach you

But what could he do?

Kim

Please tell my you're not married

You don't know you can't know what I've done to be here

Ellen

You don't know how he needed a new start

Kim

I feel walls in my heart closing in

I can't breathe, I can't win

Ellen

As for the child you say it's Chris's

Kim

Oh yes, madam, my son is Chris'

I had a dream for my son to belong

Not to all live his life in the street like a rat

We aren't rich, but we'll shoulder our load

Chris and I are totally together on that

Kim

Then you must take Tam with you

Ellen

Take a child from his mother?

Impossible, Kim

Kim

You will take Tam with you

Then he'll get what I wanted for him

Ellen

But Kim, your child needs you

Chris is married to me

We want kids of our own

Kim

Tam's chance lies with you now, not with me

Ellen

No! can't you see? It can't work, it can't be

Kim

If you're saying that because you made him change his mind

Chris must go away and leave me and his son behind!

If you're saying that, because my husband has another wife!

My child has no future, like the dust of life!

He must come tonight to my place!

Tell me so to my face!

• Artist:Miss Saigon (Musical)