Jack Straw: A Farce in Three Acts

by W. Somerset Maugham

Jack Straw.

Thanks so much.

Mrs. Parker-Jennings.

Show ’er in, James.

Footman.

Very good, madam.

[Exit Footman.

Mrs. Parker-Jennings.

My own ’ouse isn’t my own now. I’m forced to see every one I don’t want to. If there’s any one I can’t bear it’s Fanny Withers. I only asked her yesterday because I thought she’d eat her ’eart out with jealousy. She’s a snob if you like. I don’t know what she wants to come here for at this hour. [To Jack Straw.] Impostor! Impostor!

Jack Straw.