The Unknown; A Play in Three Acts

by W. Somerset Maugham

That’s a splendid idea, Norman, and just like you. I’ll ask her at once. I’ll be glad to do what I can for her.

Sylvia.

Of course one ought to try and find something to occupy her mind.

Vicar.

Happily she has always been a deeply religious woman. When all’s said and done, in grief like that there’s only one unfailing refuge.

[Kate enters, followed by Mrs. Littlewood. She is a little elderly woman. She is not dressed in mourning, but in the clothes she may be expected to have been wearing before her bereavement.

Kate.

Mrs. Littlewood.

[Exit Kate.

Mrs. Wharton.