Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works eBook

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Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 6,432 pages of information about Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works.

Frust. Fine!  Fine!

Vane.  Take up the curtain.  Mr Foreson?

     [The curtain goes up.]

Foreson.  Sir?

Vane.  Everybody on.

     [He and Frust leave their seats and ascend on to the Stage, on
     which are collecting the four Players.]

Vane.  Give us some light.

Foreson.  Electrics!  Turn up your floats!

     [The footlights go up, and the blue goes out; the light is crude
     as at the beginning.]

Frust. I’d like to meet Miss Hellgrove. [She comes forward eagerly and timidly.  He grasps her hand] Miss Hellgrove, I want to say I thought that fine—­fine. [Her evident emotion and pleasure warm him so that he increases his grasp and commendation] Fine.  It quite got my soft spots.  Emotional.  Fine!

Miss H. Oh!  Mr Frust; it means so much to me.  Thank you!

Frust. [A little balder in the eye, and losing warmth] Er—­fine! [His eye wanders] Where’s Mr Flatway?

Vane.  Fleetway.

     [Fleetway comes up.]

Frust. Mr Fleetway, I want to say I thought your Orphoos very remarkable.  Fine.

Fleetway.  Thank you, sir, indeed—­so glad you liked it.

Frust. [A little balder in the eye] There wasn’t much to it, but what there was was fine.  Mr Toone.

     [Fleetway melts out and Toone is precipitated.]

Mr Toone, I was very pleased with your Professor—­quite a character-study. [Toone bows and murmurs] Yes, sir!  I thought it fine. [His eye grows bald] Who plays the goat?

Miss HOPK. [Appearing suddenly between the windows] I play the faun, Mr Frost.

Foreson. [Introducing] Miss Maude ’Opkins.

Frust. Miss Hopkins, I guess your fawn was fine.

Miss HOPK.  Oh!  Thank you, Mr Frost.  How nice of you to say so.  I do so enjoy playing him.

Frust. [His eye growing bald] Mr Foreson, I thought the way you fixed that tree was very cunning; I certainly did.  Got a match?

     [He takes a match from Foreson, and lighting a very long cigar,
     walks up Stage through the French windows followed by Foreson,
     and examines the apple-tree.]

     [The two Actors depart, but Miss Hellgrove runs from where she
     has been lingering, by the curtain, to Vane, Stage Right.]

Miss H. Oh!  Mr Vane—­do you think?  He seemed quite—­Oh!  Mr Vane [ecstatically] If only——­

Vane. [Pleased and happy] Yes, yes.  All right—­you were splendid.  He liked it.  He quite——­

Miss H. [Clasping her hand] How wonderful Oh, Mr Vane, thank you!

     [She clasps his hands; but suddenly, seeing that Frust is coming
     back, fits across into the curtain and vanishes.]

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