What had I done? What had I done, you ask?
Why, waited thus—I would have waited—
[She sways her open arms before him like one intoxicated, throws herself around, with the upper part of her body over the balustrade, stretches her arms towards the ground—her hair falls over them.]
Braccio [with a hurried gesture tears off a piece of his sleeve and winds it around his right hand. With the sureness of a wild animal on the hunt, he grasps the ladder that is lying there, like a thin, dark rope, with both hands, makes a loop, throws it over his wife's head and pulls her body towards him.]
[During this time the curtain falls.]
LITERATURE
A Comedy
By Arthur Schnitzler
Translated by Pierre Loving.
Copyright, 1917, by Stewart & Kidd Company.
All rights reserved.
| PERSONS |
| Margaret. Clement. Gilbert. |