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[00:01.94]CHAPTER 8 WHERE IS CHRISTINE Daaé?
[00:08.95]On Saturday morning
[00:10.80]Comte Philippe looked across the breakfast table at his brother．
[00:15.91]'Don't do it,Raoul,please．
[00:19.27]All this talk about ghosts and phantoms．
[00:22.71]I think the girl is mad．'
[00:25.66]'She's not mad,
[00:27.13]and I'm going to marry her,'Raoul said．
[00:31.36]'She's only a little opera singer,'
[00:34.46]Philippe said unhappily．
[00:36.62]'And she's very young．
[00:39.78]Are you still going to love her in ten,
[00:42.47]or twenty,years' time?'
[00:45.52]Raoul drank his coffee and did not answer．
[00:51.87]There were two more unhappy faces in the Opera House,too．
[00:57.08]The directors now understood about O．G．
[01:00.68]They didn't want any more accidents．
[01:04.64]'Box 5 is free tonight for O．G．
[01:08.34]Daaé is singing Margarita．
[01:11.20]And here is 20,000 francs．
[01:14.42]Madame Giry can leave the money in Box 5 for him．
[01:18.05]Is that everything?
[01:19.90]Monsieur Armand asked Monsieur Firmin.
[01:23.70]'It's a lot of money,'Monsieur Firmin said unhappily．
[01:29.46]He thought for a minute．
[01:32.00]'What about some flowers in Box 5?
[01:36.01]Madame Giry says that O．G．likes flowers．'
[01:40.44]'O．G．can bring his own flowers!'
[01:44.59]shouted Monsieur Armand．
[01:47.03]The evening began well．
[01:49.50]The chandelier was now back in place, with new ropes．
[01:53.56]All Paris was in the Opera House．
[01:56.52]Everybody wanted to hear Christine Daaé's voice again．
[02:00.98]People also knew about the love story between Christine Daaé
[02:05.16]and the Vicomte de Chagny．
[02:07.70]There are no love secrets in Paris!
[02:10.98]People watched the Comte and the Vicomte in Box 14 with interest．
[02:16.45]Young men from families like de Chagny do not marry opera Singers.
[02:24.15]When Christine came onto the stage,
[02:26.96]her face was white and she looked afraid.
[02:30.88]But she sang like an angel．
[02:33.82]Ah, what a voice!All Paris was in love with Christine Daaé．
[02:41.18]She began to sing the famous love song．
[02:44.56]Suddenly,every light in the Opera House went out．
[02:49.74]For a second nobody moved or spoke．
[02:53.61]Then a woman screamed,
[02:56.33]and all the lights came on again.
[02:59.39]But Christine Daaé was no longer on the stage!
[03:03.19]She was not behind the stage,
[03:05.56]she was not under the stage．
[03:08.89]Nobody could find her．
[03:11.42]The Opera House went mad．
[03:13.80]Everybody ran here and there,shouted and called．
[03:18.80]In the directors office, people ran in and out．
[03:22.82]The police came,and asked questions.
[03:25.67]But nobody could answer the questions．
[03:28.87]Monsieur Armand got angry and shouted,
[03:31.85]and Monsieur Firmin told him to be quiet．
[03:35.16]Then Madame Giry arrived in the office with her daughter Meg．
[03:41.33]'Go away,woman!'Monsieur Armand shouted．
[03:46.91]'Monsieur,there are three people missing now!'
[03:51.28]Madame Giry said．'Meg,tell the directors your story．'
[03:58.19]This was Meg's story．
[04:02.93]'When the lights went out,
[04:05.03]we were just behind the stage．
[04:07.58]We heard a scream-I thlnk it was Christine Daaé's voice．
[04:13.18]Then the lights came back on,
[04:15.88]but Christine wasn't there!
[04:19.13]we were very afraid,
[04:21.37]and we began to run back to our dressing room．
[04:24.74]There were people running everywhere!
[04:28.03]Then we saw the Vicomte de Chagny．
[04:31.73]His face was red and he was very angry.
[04:35.71]"Where's Christine? Where's Christine?"he shouted．
[04:40.63]Suddenly the Persian came up behind him and took his arm．
[04:46.79]He said something to the Vicomte
[04:48.73]and they went into Christine Daaé's dressing－room…'
[04:52.80]'Yes? And then?' Monsieur Firmin said quickly．
[04:58.68]'What happened next?'
[05:01.68]'Nobody knows!' Meg's face was white．
[05:06.56]'We looked into Christine Daaé's dressing－room,
[05:10.38]but…but there was nobody there!'