Between the stone bench to the right and the tree in the centre, a tapestry frame, and in front of it a chair. Baskets full of worsted skeins and balls. On the frame, a piece of tapestry-work, unfinished.
As the curtain rises, sisters are going and coming through the garden; some are seated on the bench, on either side of an elderly sister. Leaves are falling.
SCENE I.
MOTHER MARGARET, SISTER MARTHA, SISTER CLAIRE, other SISTERS.
SISTER MARTHA (to Mother Margaret).
Sister Claire looked at herself twice in the mirror.
MOTHER MARGARET (to Sister Claire).
That was very wrong!
SISTER CLAIRE.