Perron

It doesn't matter!

Alexandre

Not at all. And when you have become reasonable and grateful, I shall return and speak further with you. I shall devise for you such sacrifice as shall make the saints but as little children. Au revoir.

(He turns away. The clock of St. Sulpice tones the half hour. The watchmaker listens to it with open mouth, and trembling violently, darts through the door of his shop.)


RAIN


PERSONS

Charles Everitt
Mary, his wife
Walter, seventeen
Alice, fifteen
Harold, five