The Trysting Place: A Farce in One Act

by Booth Tarkington

I suppose she’s thirty-five. I’ve heard of such people, but I never saw one before.

JESSIE

I regard her as distinctly the dangerous type of adventuress.

MRS. BRIGGS

Certainly. In the first place, her not having told the child frankly that she’s a widow. One of the clerks told me she was.

JESSIE

Oh, she did that to flatter him into believing he’s a real grown-up “man of the world” having an “affair”!

MRS. BRIGGS

So that when he’s sufficiently entangled she can tell him she’s a widow—and by that time we don’t know what he’d do! A country justice of the peace probably!