Elderly female: Adelaide

Elderly female, Southern American aristocrat. Vocal texture is brittle, dry, and thin, suggesting physical frailty but immense social pride. Slow, deliberate pace with a haughty, unwavering cadence. The tone is steeped in stagnant grief and a refusal to acknowledge the passage of time. High-status, reclusive, and chillingly composed, with a sharp, formal edge to her vowels.

Prompt: Elderly female, Southern American aristocrat. Vocal texture is brittle, dry, and thin, suggesting physical frailty but immense social pride. Slow, deliberate pace with a haughty, unwavering cadence. The tone is steeped in stagnant grief and a refusal to acknowledge the passage of time. High-status, reclusive, and chillingly composed, with a sharp, formal edge to her vowels.

Script: You may draw those curtains if you must, but kindly leave the portrait where it is; some things in this house remember better manners than the living do.