Four Short Plays

LONDON ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS 187 Piccadilly, W. 1922 All Rights Reserved PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THE DUNEDIN PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH
To SYBIL THORNDIKE.


A Play in One Act. Characters :
Rachel and Carteret sitting in their comfortable drawing room , Rachel in armchair R.C. near a table, cutting a book with a paper-knife . Carteret on small sofa, L.C., with a little table near him on which is an ash-tray. He is smoking, and reading the Pall Mall Gazette.
Rachel. Of course there are. And it's still more interesting trying to guess which of them are true. But still it is rather boring that you should be reading the newspaper while I'm talking.
Carteret. Oh? I thought you were talking while I was reading the newspaper.
Rachel. That is a one-sided view, I must say.