John Speaker

[Rapidly.]

Poor
Cousin Fanny.... Poor
Cousin Fanny.... Poor
Cousin Fanny....

John Thinker

Fifteen thousand a year... fifteen thousand a year.... Why do I think of that?... But I can't help it.... I can't help thinking of it....

Mary Speaker I'll go get the maid.

[Going.]

John Speaker

Stop.... Wait, Mary.... Don't call her yet... get her presently.... I don't want to be alone just now.... I'm in a kind of fog....

[Lights go out as he says this; he continues in the darkness.]