[They shuffle out. ]
HILLCRIST. I'd forgotten their existence. [He gets up] What is it that gets loose when you begin a fight, and makes you what you think you're not? What blinding evil! Begin as you may, it ends in this —skin game! Skin game!
JILL. [Rushing to him] It's not you, Dodo; it's not you, beloved
Dodo.
HILLCRIST. It is me. For I am, or should be, master in this house!
MRS. H. I don't understand.
HILLCRIST. When we began this fight, we had clean hands—are they clean' now? What's gentility worth if it can't stand fire?
CURTAIN
FROM THE SERIES OF SIX SHORT PLAYS
Contents:
The First and The Last
The Little Man
Hall-marked
Defeat
The Sun
Punch and Go