When You're Driving Through the Moonlight

[ELLA] When you’re driving through the moonlight on the highway When you’re driving through the moonlight to the dance You are breathless with a wild anticipation Of adventure and excitement and romance Then at last you see the towers of the palace Silhouetted on the sky above the park And below them is a row of lighted windows Like a lovely diamond necklace in the dark! [CHARLOTTE] It looks that way— [GABRIELLE] The way you say [MADAME] She talks as if she knows [ELLA] I do not know These things are so I only just suppose... I suppose that when you come into the ballroom And the room itself is floating in the air If you’re suddenly confronted by His Highness You are frozen like a statue on the stair You’re afraid he’ll hear the way your heart is beating And you know you mustn’t make the first advance You are seriously thinking of retreating— Then you seem to hear him asking you to dance You make a bow A timid bow And shyly answer “yes” [MADAME] How would you know That this is so? [ELLA] I do know more than guess [CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE] You can guess till you’re blue in the face But you can’t even picture such a man [CHARLOTTE] He is more than a prince [GABRIELLE] He’s an ace! [ELLA] But sisters, I really think I can— [MADAME] Can what? [ELLA] I think that I can picture such a man [CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE] He is tall [ELLA] And straight as a lance [CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE] And his hair— [ELLA] Is dark and wavy [CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE] His eyes— [ELLA] Can melt you with a glance [CHARLOTTE & GABRIELLE] He can turn a girl to gravy! [ELLA] And I can imagine it [GABRIELLE] I imagine it too! [CHARLOTTE] I can imagine it, and I have no imagination! [MADAME] I am throwing caution to the wind! I am imagining it as well! [ELLA] Imagine what that girl would be feeling when dancing with the Prince!