CHRISTINE:(spoken worriedly) Gustave! It's alright! It's me!Gustave please, take him away!I'm so sorry! Please forgive him! He meant no harm!PHANTOM:How could you think I wouldn't guess?CHRISTINE:(spoken) What do you mean?PHANTOM:How could you think I wouldn't know?CHRISTINE:(spoken) Oh no!PHANTOM:Do you have something to confess?CHRISTINE:(spoken) Please don't make me!PHANTOM:(louder, almost shout-singing)I want the truth right now if so!CHRISTINE:Once upon another time,You went off and left me aloneBut that's not all you did,You left me with a sonEver since that other timeI wish, how I wish you'd have knownI kept the secret hidThe secret my marrige forbidWhat else could I have done?Just love,PHANTOM:Our son!CHRISTINE:Just live,PHANTOM:My son!CHRISTINE:Just give what I could give,And take what little I deservePHANTOM:(spoken) My own flesh and blood,And even he recoils in horror from me,Just like his motherCHRISTINE:Forgive me, I beg you,If you can,I've brought you nothing but woe,Tomorrow night I'll sing with all my mightSing for you again!(spoken) Then we'll goPHANTOM:From out of ugliness, such lightFrom out of darkness, such a flame!In him, my wrongness is made right,And yet he loathes me just the same!(angry and louder)So let him shun me in disgust!Let him flee this cursed face!If I must hide from him I must!Yet shall he be my saving grace!For Christine, My Christine,If it's true I've no reason to live,Then Christine, Then our boyShall have all I can give!Ah Christine!All I create on this earth!All that I'll never be worth,All shall be his!MADAME GIRY:Ten long years and he casts us asideTen whole years, this is how we're repaid?Ten dark years of toil and tearsAnd now what we worked for will go to that child!All our hopes were at last in our graspAll the dreams and the plans that we layedEverything is vanishingAnd we get discarded, rejected, reviled!All of the bonds inbetween us now torn!All of the love that we gave him foresworn!All would be ours if that b#*!%$#! had never been born!