Grace.
[To Cobbett, with a little bitter laugh.] We’re going to play poker.
THE SECOND ACT
The Scene is the same as in the preceding Act. It is evening, towards seven o’clock, but it is still perfectly light. Grace and Peggy Gann are in the room, both standing. Peggy is a pretty girl, quite young, but very pale, with black rings round her eyes. She is dressed like a housemaid in her going-out things. Grace is evidently much distressed.
Peggy.
You will try, mum, won’t you?
[Peggy’s voice seems to call Grace back with a start from her own thoughts.
Grace.
I ought to have been told before. It was wicked to keep it from me.