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CRAIG’S WIFE
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Mrs. Craig (springing to his side and seizing the telephone)
- Now, listen to me, Walter Craig; you must not use that telephone. (She looks him straight in the eyes, then moves back several steps and looks at him defiantly) I will not allow you to drag my name into a notorious scandal.
Craig (whipping the receiver off and putting it to his ear)
- I’ve got to find out where I’m at in this thing!
Mrs. Craig (raising her voice threateningly)
- If you speak over that telephone I’ll leave this house! (He takes the receiver from his ear and looks at her steadily. There is a pause) And you know what construction ’ud be put upon that, under the circumstances.
- [He slowly hangs up and sets the telephone back onto the little table, holding her eyes steadily. Then he moves slowly towards her.
Craig
- What do you mean, you’ll leave this house?
Mrs. Craig (stonily)
- I mean exactly what I said. Do you think I could stay in this neighborhood twenty-four hours after my name had been associated with a thing of this kind?
Craig
- And haven’t you any appreciation of the necessity of my knowing what’s happening in this case?
Mrs. Craig
- I have no appreciation of any necessity except the necessity of keeping still.
Craig
- But supposing something developed that would reveal absolutely the fact that I had been out there last night —
Mrs. Craig
- What can develop, if you keep still?
