Continuity lapse

Having finally laboured through Chapter Nine (in which Hertha unexpectedly (to the author at least) breaks down and walks out on Raoul, after having been 'the sensible one' throughout the rest of the story -- which does at least have the advantage of placing her even further from the centre of the action so far as avoiding a straight Phantom retelling is concerned, I suppose, but which I'm not convinced was nearly such a good idea as it initially seemed), I was planning to place Chapter Ten in the graveyard, with Christine bolting out of the managers' office in tears after Raoul tries to persuade her to sing in the Phantom's opera, and running straight into Hertha.

Only it turns out that "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" does *not* follow immediately after Christine's distressed exit. There is an entire rehearsal scene first, which Christine attends apparently willingly and apparently in a sufficiently calm state to try to help Piangi with his part...( Read more... )