One-Act Plays by Modern Authors

by Unknown

There!—he is coming now, I hear his steps
Upon the gravel road. Good-night, sweet child,
I'll get me home.

Lisetta.
Pia, good-night once more.

[Pia slips away. Guido enters softly. The twilight is gone and the moon falls through the window over the bed. The hill outside is bright with moonlight.]

Guido [softly].
Asleep, Lisetta?

Lisetta.
Guido! Ah, I have need of naught, Guido.
Thou needst not leave yet the pleasant air.

Guido.
Lisetta, my love, I have been long from thee.

Lisetta.
Let not that trouble thee, my needs are few,
And Pia is most kind.

Guido.
So little I may do.

Lisetta.
Thou hast already served to weariness.

[He kneels beside her bed.]