[Enter Luka with an ax, the gardener with a rake, the coachman with a pitch-fork, workmen with poles.]
Luka [staring at the pair]. Merciful Heavens! [A long pause.]
Mrs. Popov [dropping her eyes]. Tell them in the stable that Tobby isn't to have any oats.
[Curtain.]
HIS WIDOW'S HUSBAND
A Comedy
By Jacinto Benevente
Translated by John Garrett Underhill.
Copyright, 1917, by John Garrett Underhill.
All rights reserved.
First presented at the Teatro Principe Alfonso, Madrid, on the evening of the nineteenth of October, 1908.