CRAIG’S WIFE
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Craig (after a slight pause)
- You mean you’ve kept them out of here?
Mrs. Craig (turning to him again and looking him straight in the eyes)
- Well, if I did the end justified the means; you at least haven’t been in the shadow of the law in the last eighteen months.
- [He holds her eye for a second, then moves forward to the front of the table.
Craig
- You’re certainly running true to form, Harriet.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, I’m glad of it if I am.
Craig
- My aunt said here a while ago that you’d driven all my friends away from this house.
Mrs. Craig (with level significance)
- There are ways of getting rid of people without driving them away from the house.
- [Craig makes a little sound of bitter amusement.
Craig
- And I thought she was imagining things at your expense.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, you see she probably had better perception than you’d given her credit for.
- [He turns and looks at her darkly.
Craig
- Probably she had; for she perceived something else, Harriet, that may be equally true.
Mrs. Craig
- Is that so?
