MAGRUDER—If he is, I wish I had the same thing the matter with me. He's suffering from a sense of duty.
TWIGGS—You don't have to worry then.
WILCOX—Tell us all about it.
MAGRUDER—You might as well sit down first because he isn't coming. (They all sit down but MAGRUDER.) You see I found him in a little room in a corner of the palace hard at work on a map. I asked him why he wasn't at the banquet and he said he was too busy. I told him it was just drudgery and to let some one else do it, but he looked up at me with that mild, calm gaze we all know so well and said, "No, I'm just doing my duty."
Act II
SCENE I
General Scott's office, Washington, April 18, 1861.
Characters
Colonel Lee
General Scott