Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
RICHARD ROWAN, a writer. BERTHA. ARCHIE, their son, aged eight years. ROBERT HAND, journalist. BEATRICE JUSTICE, his cousin, music teacher. BRIGID, an old servant of the Rowan family. A FISHWOMAN.
ROBERT. [_Impatiently._] No man ever yet lived on this earth who did not long to possess—I mean to possess in the flesh—the woman whom he loves. It is nature’s law.
3. Part 3RICHARD. But when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. [_He bends his head and presses his son’s hand against his cheek._] It is yours then for ever w...
6. Part 6BERTHA. Yes, you. By your letters to him and then by speaking to your cousin as you said just now. Do you not think that you are the person who brought him back?
5. Part 5BERTHA. [_Looks up at him._] Listen, Robert. I want to explain to you about that. I could not deceive Dick. Never. In nothing. I told him everything—from the first. Then it went...
2. Part 2[_Beatrice and Archie go out together by the door on the left. Bertha goes towards the davenport, takes off her hat and lays it with her sunshade on the desk. Then taking a key...
1. Part 1RICHARD ROWAN, a writer. BERTHA. ARCHIE, their son, aged eight years. ROBERT HAND, journalist. BEATRICE JUSTICE, his cousin, music teacher. BRIGID, an old servant of the Rowan f...
7. Part 7BERTHA. [_Caressing her cheek with his hand._] It was lovely, Dick, only I was so sad. I was alone, Dick, forgotten by you and by all. I felt my life was ended.