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

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She takes from her dress two sealed letters.

sarah.Will you give that to Sir Charles... a letter he wrote me which I did not open. This, my answer, which I did not send.

He takes the one letter courteously, the other she puts back.

sarah.I'm such a coward, Mr. Tetgeen.

mr. tetgeen.May I say how sorry...?

sarah.Thank you.

mr. tetgeen.And let me apologise for having expressed one opinion of my own.

sarah.He wants to get rid of me. He's a bit afraid of me, you know, because I fight... and my weapons are all my own. This'll blow over.

mr. tetgeen.[With a shake of the head.]You are to take this offer as final.

sarah.Beyond this?

mr. tetgeen.As I hinted, I am prepared to advise legal measures.

sarah.I could blow it over... but I won't perhaps. I must smile at my husband's consideration in suppressing even to you... the man's name. Butter and eggs ... and milk. I should grow fat.

ann appears suddenly.

ann.We go to Brighton to-morrow![And she comes excitedly to her sister.]

sarah.Was that duel a stroke of genius?