CRAIG’S WIFE
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Ethel
- Certainly not.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, what else would you be to him, dear—unless you used your own money? And that isn’t conducive to respect for a man. And, in any case, you’d find in time that he’d come to resent your independence of him.
Miss Austen (at the head of the stair)
- Yes, I have it here in my bag, Mrs. Harold.
Mrs. Craig (drawing Ethel towards the portières)
- So just think it over. And come on out to the breakfast room and let me get you something,
- [They go out through the portières. Miss Austen comes down. the stairs, dressed for the street. She glances through the portières and picks up the telephone.
Miss Austen (into the telephone)
- Will you give me Market, three, three, three, three, please? Please. (Mrs. Harold comes down the stairs, dressed for the street, and carrying a suit case and a smaller bag) I think you might as well take those right out on to the porch, Mrs. Harold.
Mrs. Harold (going out)
- Yes, Ma’m.
Miss Austen
- Have them ready when the cab comes. (Into the telephone) Hello.—Will you please send a taxicab to six hundred and eighty Belmont Manor, right away, please? Yes. (She sets the telephone down and Mrs. Harold comes in) It’ll be here in a few minutes, Mrs. Harold. Are you all ready?
Mrs. Harold
- Yes, Ma’m, I’m ready.
