Juliet pretends to obey her father

Scene summary

Capulet orders invitations sent to everyone on the list and twenty cooks hired. He asks whether his daughter went to the friar and says the friar may do her good, for she is a stubborn and capricious girl. Juliet arrives from confession, kneels, and says she has learned to repent of her disobedient opposition, that the friar ordered her to ask her father's pardon, and that from now on she will be ruled by him. Capulet sends for the Count: he wants the wedding the next morning. Juliet says she met Paris in the friar's cell and gave him the love that modesty allowed. Capulet is pleased, tells her to rise, and praises the friar, to whom the whole city owes a debt. Juliet asks the Nurse to help her choose ornaments for the next day, but her mother reminds her that it will only be on Thursday. Capulet tells the Nurse to accompany her, says he will go to church the next day, and his wife frets over the preparations. He says he will not go to bed, and that he himself will see to the house and inform Paris. He leaves, saying his heart has been light since the stubborn girl mended her ways.