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Page 48 - also rises. PETER. Well, you know, mother, I don't think the game's worth the candle. It's begun to pall on me already. MRS. CULLINGHAM. I really think he's going to be superior to it! PETER. I only go now for your sake. [MRS. TILLMAN, coming from Right, speaks off stage. MRS. TILLMAN. Jinny! Jinny
Page 52 - with a driver, Left. FOOTMAN. Yes, sir, it's here. BUTLER. [To the driver.] You can take that first. [Pointing to the steamer trunk. [DRIVER goes out Left with it on his shoulder, the luggage to Twenty-third Street Ferry and check the heavy baggage; you know where to. FOOTMAN. Yes, sir. SUSIE. [Eagerly.] Oh, where
Page 106 - AUSTIN. I didn't hear you, Jinny! [Rising. JINNY. No, you both seemed so absorbed. RUTH. [Going to JINNY.] I'm so glad to see you. [Kisses her, but JINNY only gives her her cheek and that rather unwillingly; she is looking all the time at her husband. JINNY. Thank you, I've just left the
Page 122 - MRS. TILLMAN. And you're still ideally happy aren't you, darling? JINNY. Yes — [She rises and goes to a table near the centre of the room and looks at the titles of several books without realizing what they are. MRS. TILLMAN. Why, Jinny, — what does that mean? JINNY. Oh, it's all my horrid disposition!
Page 187 - [No answer from JINNY.] To spare me, and above all to spare you the knowledge of your brother's sin, your husband has kept Geoffrey's secret from you. You have well repaid him! [She turns again to AUSTIN.] Good-by — I feel to-night I couldn't marry Geoffrey again. He's tumbled so far off his pedestal he has fallen out of my heart. But
Page 195 - asleep now. AUSTIN. [At a little distance.] Father! TILLMAN. I'm outside the library door. AUSTIN. [Nearer.] I can't wait—have you seen her? Will she see me? TILLMAN. She's locked herself in here. She's not been to her own room. AUSTIN. Not been to bed at all! Poor Jinny — God forgive me.
Page 23 - which he takes a round, black tablet which he puts in his mouth. RUTH. [Also rising.] I'd better go. [PETER is making frantic efforts to swallow the tablet. GEOFFREY. [Noticing him.] What's the matter with you? PETER. O dear! I've eaten so many ices and fancy cakes, I've got awful indigestion, and I'm trying to swallow a
Page 127 - I don't begrudge your mother her first place in your affections! JINNY. Not at all, father; with you and mother there's no first place. She will tell you all about it on the way home! Please, mother. MRS. TILLMAN. Very well, dear. TILLMAN. A little "scrap
Page 198 - raises herself and makes an effort to crawl, but is unable and sinks back upon the floor. AUSTIN. Break the door in, father! We daren't waste any more time! TILLMAN. No, this has done it! [They open the door and rush in. They stop aghast at JINNY and the oppressiveness
Page 183 - the door behind her. MAGGIE. Please, sir, Miss Chester came upstairs and made me knock again to see if there was an answer and if you will see her now or not. JINNY. [Suddenly—aflame with her idea.] Yes! Maggie, show her in! AUSTIN. No, no! What do you want to