2 hours

A young lady, gloved and hatted, with a coat on, is sitting in the window-seat.
A clock strikes six. The young lady turns and looks at her watch. She rises with an air of one who
waits, and is almost at the end of her patience.
With a sigh of weary resignation she sits down; and begins to read. Presently the book sinks to her
lap; her eyes close; and she dozes into a slumber.
An elderly womanservant comes in from the hall and disappears in the pantry without noticing the
young lady. As she returns the young lady lets her book drop, awakening herself, and startling the
womanservant.

The young lady picks up the book and places it on the

table

looking in from the hall suddenly: an ancient but still hardy man

advancing to the drawing-table

 To the young lady
she goes to the door leading to the hall

as she passes him

Quite unconcerned, she goes out into the hall on her

way to the kitchen

He sits down in the big wicker chair

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3543/3543-h/3543-h.htm .
George gets up and goes across to the desk. He sits, picks up the phone and dials just one number.

Lois enters George’s office.

Hands her bank cards.

Hiss
He picks up the phone.

Pause
He hangs up after another pause.

He touches her.
 She cries.

Crying

He walks away from her and sits on the sofa.

Adapted from Trevor Rhone, Old Story Time. Pearson, 2010, pp. 64–68.

He picks up the
phone”, “Pause”
“He hangs up after another pause”
Cecil Gray, “Beach”. In Careenage pp. 15–16, Lilibel
Publications, Toronto, 2003.
–
 Edna St. Vincent Millay “An Ancient Gesture”.
Retrieved from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-ancient-gesture .
Adapted from Edwidge Danticat, “Nineteen Thirty-Seven”. In The Oxford Book of
Caribbean Short Stories, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 447–455.
Adapted from Su Tong, Raise the Red Lantern, Perennial Edition, 2004, pp. 11 14.