SCENE II
(A country kitchen. Elizabeth in middy and skirt, enters slowly toward centre of stage, examining an envelope.)
Elizabeth—(still examining envelope.) I wonder who this letter’s from. I don’t know the writing and it’s from New York City. But there’s lot of people I know there. Perhaps it’s from one of those little girls at Erskine College that were always getting a crush on us bigger girls and bothering us to death with their gushing. Now, who is it from anyway? (laughing.) Say, I never thought of it, but perhaps if I opened it I’d find out. (Opens and glances over it, and seems amazed and reads very slowly aloud.)
14 Riverside Drive, New York City.
Dear Cousin Elizabeth:
Father wished me to write and ask you to visit us for a couple of weeks. I know that you really wouldn’t want to come as you’d feel so shy and awkward in a city home and among the girls in our set and doubtless you have no clothes suitable for the city; but as he wished me to ask you, I have done so.
Yours truly,
Margaret Neilson.
(Elizabeth looks up bewildered.)