The Thirteenth Chair: A Play in Three Acts

by Bayard Veiller

DONOHUE. Yours?

MISS STANDISH. Grace.

DONOHUE. Mr. Crosby, your wife's name is?

CROSBY. Alicia.

DONOHUE. Mrs. Trent?

MRS. TRENT (R.C.). Helen.

DONOHUE, Miss O'Neill?

HELEN (up C., in front of chesterfield). Helen.

(There is a long pause.)

DONOHUE (L.C. WILLIAM comes to HELEN C.). Helen, I see. So there are two Helens. Two Helens. (He stands looking first at one and then at the other of the two women.) Mr. Crosby, when Madame la Grange first came to-night, did she show any surprise at seeing any of the people here?