LOUISE becomes visible at one of the windows on the second floor; immediately afterward everything is dark up there.
MASTER. [To LOUISE] Close the windows and pull down the shades so that all memories can lie down and sleep in peace! The peace of old age! And this fall I move away from the Silent House.
Curtain.
[AFTER THE FIRE]
(BRÄNDA TOMTEN)
A CHAMBER PLAY
1907
CHARACTERS
RUDOLPH WALSTRÖM, a dyer
THE STRANGER, who is brother of RUDOLPH)
ARVID WALSTRÖM brother of RUDOLPH
ANDERSON, a mason (brother-in-law of the gardener)
MRS. ANDERSON, wife of the mason
GUSTAFSON, a gardener (brother-in-law of the mason)
ALFRED, son of the gardener
ALBERT ERICSON, a stone-cutter (second cousin of the hearse-driver)
MATHILDA, daughter of the stone-cutter
THE HEARSE-DRIVER (second cousin of the stone-cutter)
A DETECTIVE
SJÖBLOM, a painter
MRS. WESTERLUND, hostess at "The Last Nail," formerly a
nurse at the dyer's
MRS. WALSTRÖM, wife of the dyer
THE STUDENT
THE WITNESS