Category: Humour
_The scene represents a room high up in a Bloomsbury lodging-house. It is poorly, but not sordidly, furnished; and here and there are touches of taste, and some attempt at comfort. Nelly Morris, a young girl, dressed in a very old frock, the shabbiness of which she has attempt...
_The scene represents a room high up in a Bloomsbury lodging-house. It is poorly, but not sordidly, furnished; and here and there are touches of taste, and some attempt at comfo...
2. Part 2Yes, doing a bigger business than ever. I'm afraid he won't live long. They'll be wanting him for an angel when the next vacancy occurs. He is a County Councillor already. By-th...
3. Part 3I do _not_ regret it. (_Ted stares at her._) Listen to me. Ted. When Adam Cherry asked me to marry him to let him make our lives smooth, I thought of you.
4. Part 4Respectability! Man alive, don't talk about it. The very sound of the word makes me ill. It's been my curse from a child. I refused to play hopscotch at eight years old because...
5. Part 5She'll be here in a minute. It occurred to her when we got to Paddington Station that she hadn't had any lunch, and that this wasn't a scene to be gone through on an empty stoma...
6. Part 6(_With an air of sweet sadness._) Not think of you, Gertrude? Ah, how often have I not longed to seek you--to come to you with outstretched arms and say, "Gertrude, let us forgi...