NOTE:
The setting for Act III is the same as for Act I except that the small chair which Jenny brings on at the opening of the play is eliminated.
Jenny is seated at the table below the piano, reading the Pictorial Review. The door closes out at the right. She stops reading and listens. Then resumes. Ritter wanders in from the right hallway, wearing a black overcoat and a derby. The derby is a bit over one eye and his cigar is at a comic angle. Jenny sees him and rises immediately, circling around to the left to the middle of the room.
Jenny. Oh, Mr. Ritter! [He comes into the center-door and stands there, looking at nothing.] I didn’t hear you come in, sir. Is the show over?
Ritter. [Removing his gloves] It’s all over town by this time.
Jenny. [Standing slightly left of the center of the room, facing him] Mrs. Ritter just telephoned a minute ago.
Ritter. Is she alive?
Jenny. Alive, Mr. Ritter?
Ritter. [Moving down to the table below the piano, and thrusting his gloves into his overcoat pocket] Because if she is, she’s got a charmed life. [Commencing to unfasten his coat] The Seamen’s Institute! God help them on a night like this.
Jenny. She was anxious to know if you were still unconscious.