Trelawny of The "Wells": A Comedietta in Four Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

[Giving a final touch to the quilt.] Eh?

Avonia.

Is Miss Trelawny in her room?

Mrs. Mossop.

No, Mrs. Gadd; she's at rehearsal.

Avonia.

Oh——

[Mrs. Mossop draws the curtains, hiding the bed from view. Avonia enters by the door on the right in a morning wrapper which has seen its best days. She carries a pair of curling-tongs, and her hair is evidently in process of being dressed in ringlets.]

Avonia.

Of course she is; I forgot. There's a call for The Peddler of Marseilles. Thank Gawd, I'm not in it. [Singing.] "I'm a great guerrilla chief, I'm a robber and a thief, I can either kill a foe or prig a pocket-handkerchief——"