[She begins to move violently about the kitchen as the curtain falls.
ACT IV.—Scene 1.
The kitchen is decorated with bunches of flowers. A long table is spread with silver, china and food. Clara is setting mugs to each place. Maggie comes in from the back kitchen with a large dish of salad.
Maggie. When folks do come down to the countryside they likes to enjoy themselves among the vegetables.
Clara. [Placing the last mug.] There—Now all is ready for them.
Maggie. [Bending over a place at the end of the table.] Come you and look at this great old bumble-dore, Joan, what have flyed in through the window.
Clara. [Goes to Maggie’s side and bends down over the table.] O what a beautiful thing. Look at the gold on him, and his legs are like feathers.
Maggie. [Taking the bee carefully up in a duster and letting it fly through the window.] The sign of a stranger, so they do say.
Clara. A stranger, Maggie?
Maggie. You mind my words, ’tis a stranger as’ll sit where yon was stuck, afore the eating be finished.