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Page 95
Flora Hypatia Storey , housemaid . Nestor Storey , groom . Keeter . Miss Flecker . Horace Dabney . Fra Soderström . Charles F. Hammersley , And other guests . The action takes place in the great drawing - room of Peter Magnus ' New York ...
Flora Hypatia Storey , housemaid . Nestor Storey , groom . Keeter . Miss Flecker . Horace Dabney . Fra Soderström . Charles F. Hammersley , And other guests . The action takes place in the great drawing - room of Peter Magnus ' New York ...
Page 96
( Flora clasps her hands behind her head and for a moment we see the gleam of polished elbows ) : You done this last night , sure as I live ! What was you doing , anyway - locked in here alone ? And how come you spilled candle grease ?
( Flora clasps her hands behind her head and for a moment we see the gleam of polished elbows ) : You done this last night , sure as I live ! What was you doing , anyway - locked in here alone ? And how come you spilled candle grease ?
Page 97
FLORA : Stop scolding me , I say ! Was you SARAH : Lower your voice , you wicked young one . never in the house with the dead before ? —It's trouble , trouble , trouble , every way . From the time I light my candle in the morning to ...
FLORA : Stop scolding me , I say ! Was you SARAH : Lower your voice , you wicked young one . never in the house with the dead before ? —It's trouble , trouble , trouble , every way . From the time I light my candle in the morning to ...
Page 98
FLORA ( flinging herself back into the chair with a shudder ) : I hate your talk . SARAH : I see as clear as day , Flora , we'll be found out . It'll find me out first because I'm the older woman , and now that John Bowles is dead ...
FLORA ( flinging herself back into the chair with a shudder ) : I hate your talk . SARAH : I see as clear as day , Flora , we'll be found out . It'll find me out first because I'm the older woman , and now that John Bowles is dead ...
Page 99
FLORA ( unenthusiastically ) : Perhaps . NESTOR : And if he did come back suddenly we could rush anybody else out the back door . FLORA : Like as not he'll write us first and tell us when he's coming so we can get ready .
FLORA ( unenthusiastically ) : Perhaps . NESTOR : And if he did come back suddenly we could rush anybody else out the back door . FLORA : Like as not he'll write us first and tell us when he's coming so we can get ready .
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