DANIEL'S Bedroom – The AUSTEN family farmhouse  1945

DANIEL has returned to America and his home. The war has ended. One day he receives a letter from JEAN, the Resistance fighter who met him at GARE DU NORD and helped him escape back to England. JEAN survived the war. He writes that near the end of the war, MANON was arrested by the Gestapo, tortured  and deported to a concentration camp where she was murdered. DANIEL is inconsolable. Until now he had refused to accept that MANON was dead. He falls into deep despair. We see him in his room, head buried in his hands. He tells his parents he must return to Paris. It is the only place that will give him solace and peace.

He begins to reprise "I Once Was Loved," but breaks down in sobs, unable to continue.

I know that I
Must leave her now
And take a path
I cannot see

And if I fail
To find my way
To be the man
She saw in me

I'll always hold
This treasured memory
I once was loved
I once was there

And snow will fall
And winter come
And tears appear
Like gentle rain...