Oh! at once!
DANCY. All right. Get your hat on.
MABEL passes him, and goes into the bedroom, Left. DANCY, left
alone, stands quite still, staring before him. With a sudden shrug
of his shoulders he moves quickly to his hat and takes it up just as
MABEL returns, ready to go out. He opens the door; and crossing
him, she stops in the doorway, looking up with a clear and trustful
gaze as
The CURTAIN falls.
ACT III
SCENE I
Three months later. Old MR JACOB TWISDEN's Room, at the offices of
Twisden & Graviter, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, is spacious, with two
large windows at back, a fine old fireplace, Right, a door below it,
and two doors, Left. Between the windows is a large table sideways
to the window wall, with a chair in the middle on the right-hand
side, a chair against the wall, and a client's chair on the
left-hand side.
GRAVITER, TWISDEN'S much younger partner, is standing in front of
the right-hand window looking out on to the Fields, where the lamps
are being lighted, and a taxi's engine is running down below. He
turns his sanguine, shrewd face from the window towards a
grandfather dock, between the doors, Left, which is striking "four.
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