[Exit up left.]
HAWCASTLE
[sitting]
And Madame de Champigny?
[MARIANO serves coffee, etc.]
[As HAWCASTLE speaks the COMTESSE DE CHAMPIGNY enters from hotel. She is a pretty Frenchwoman of thirty-two. She wears a fashionable summer Parisian morning dress, light and gay in color, a short-sleeved little Empire jacket, and long [pg 021] gloves. She carries a parasol. Her elaborately dressed hair is surmounted by a jaunty Parisian toque.]
MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY
[lifting her hand gayly as she enters, and striking a little attitude before she descends the steps]
Me voici!
HAWCASTLE