The Benefit of the Doubt; a Comedy in Three Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

[Outside.] Much prefer walking, I assure you.

Shafto.

[Outside.] Good-bye.

Elphick.

[Outside.] Enjoyed seeing the cottage again enormously.

[The sound of the voices dies away; a clock in the library strikes nine; John returns.

John.

[Looking round.] Olive—Olive——

[She reappears.

Olive.