Читать книгу Three Plays by Granville Barker: The Marrying of Ann Leete, The Voysey Inheritance & Waste онлайн

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ann.There'll be others to come. I'm not afraid of being married.

sarah.What did Papa want Mrs. Opie for?

ann.There'll be a great many things I shall want to know about men now.

george.Wisdom cometh with sorrow... oh, my sister.

sarah.I believe you two are both about as selfish as you can be.

george.I am an egotist... with attachments.

ann.Make use of me.

george.Ann, you marry—when you marry—to please yourself.

ann.There's much in life that I don't like, Sally.

sarah.There's much more that you will.

george.I think we three have never talked together before.

abud, who has been in sight on the terrace for a few moments, now comes down the steps.

abud.May I make so bold, sir, as to ask how is Mrs. George Leete?

george.She was well when I last heard.

abud.Thank you, sir.

And he returns to his work.

ann.I wonder will it be a boy or a girl.

george.Poor weak woman.

sarah. Be grateful to her.

ann.A baby is a wonderful thing.

sarah.Babyhood in the abstract... beautiful.

ann.Even kittens...

She stops, and then in rather childish embarrassment, moves away from them.