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Page 83
SOPHY.
[_Sobbing._] Oh! oh!
[_There is a hurried, irregular knocking at the door._
QUEX.
[_Gripping her arm._] Hush! [_In a whisper._] Call out--wait!
SOPHY.
[_Raising her voice--unsteadily._] Wait--one moment!
QUEX.
[_In her ear, as he gives her the key of the door._] Say the Duchess is
with Mrs. Jack; say she wants her letters brought to her in the morning;
say anything--
SOPHY.
Yes, yes. [_Weeping and shaking and gasping, she goes to the door and
unlocks it. He tip-toes into the bedroom and turns out the light there.
She opens the door an inch or two._] Yes?
TWO VOICES.
[_A mans and a woman's._] What is it? what's the matter?
SOPHY.
[_Steadying herself, with an effort._] Nothing. Only her Grace has gone
to Mrs. Eden's room and wishes her letters taken there in the morning
most particularly--see?
THE VOICES.
What did you ring like that for? Thought the place was afire!
SOPHY.
Oh, don't make a fuss about nothing. You servants _are_ an old-fashioned
lot. Bong swor!
THE VOICES.
[_Angrily._] Oh, good-night.
SOPHY.
Ha, ha, ha!
[_She closes the door and totters away from it, sobbing hysterically,
as_ QUEX _comes to her._
QUEX.
[_Kindly._] Be off. Go to bed. Serve me how you please. Miss Fullgarney,
upon my soul, I--I humbly beg your pardon.
SOPHY.
[_Passing him._] Oh! oh! oh! [_Turning to him._] Oh, God bless you!
You--you--you're a gentleman! I'll do what I can for you!
[_She staggers to the passage-door and disappears, closing the door
behind her. Then he extinguishes the remaining light, and cautiously
lets himself out at the other door._
END OF THE THIRD ACT.
THE FOURTH ACT
_The scene is the same, in every respect, as that of the First Act._
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