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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of That Awful Letter, by Edna I. MacKenzie
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-Title: That Awful Letter
-       A Comedy for Girls
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-Author: Edna I. MacKenzie
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-Release Date: August 16, 2016 [EBook #52818]
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-    That Awful Letter
-
-    _A Comedy for Girls_
-
-
-    BY
-    EDNA I. MAC KENZIE
-
-
-    Copyright, 1919, by
-    PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY
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-    PAINE PUBLISHING COMPANY
-    DAYTON, OHIO
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-THAT AWFUL LETTER
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-CHARACTERS
-
-
-    MARGARET NEILSON—A Snobbish City Girl.
-    ELIZABETH NORTON—Her Country Cousin.
-    HELEN MONTGOMERY—Margaret’s Dearest Friend.
-    EDITH BROWNING—A Friend of Elizabeth’s.
-    NORA—A Maid of Neilson’s
-
-    (This part may be taken by Edith Browning.)
-
-    TIME OF PLAYING—_About Forty Minutes._
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-SCENE I
-
-
-(_Sitting-room in Neilson’s house, well furnished. Margaret
-overdressed, is sitting reading a magazine. She looks up impatiently
-and throws it down in disgust._)
-
-MARGARET—(_crossly._) There’s no use in my trying to read or do
-anything else when I’m so provoked. I don’t see why dad can’t (_the
-bell rings_) Oh, drat that bell! I don’t want to see any person. I wish
-people would stay at home. (_Goes and looks out._) Oh! it’s Helen! I
-wonder what she wants now. She is always running over and I’m sure I’m
-never over there any more than four times a day at the most. (_Helen
-comes in and Margaret rushes to embrace her._) Oh Helen, you dear girl!
-I’m so glad to see you. I was just wishing you would come over. Do take
-off your hat and stay awhile. I’ve just been so mad I could boil over
-or bite somebody or do something awful.
-
-HELEN—Why, what is the matter with you? What are you mad about?
-(_Aside, It seems to me she is always in hot water or a stew about
-something._)
-
-MARGARET—Well, sit down and I’ll tell you about it. (_They sit down
-on a couch._) It seems that dad has some country relations somewhere
-in the backwoods. He’s had them ever since he was born but he’s just
-remembering them now. Well, it seems that there’s a girl about my age
-and dad was looking over some old photos last night and came across one
-of her when she was six years old. That picture put him into the notion
-that he would like to see that girl and nothing will do but I must
-write and ask her up.
-
-HELEN—That won’t hurt you, will it? I think it would be nice to have a
-girl visiting you. I know when Marian Staddon was visiting me, we had a
-dandy time—parties, dances, and heaps of things.
-
-MARGARET—Yes, but can’t you get anything into your head? This is a
-cousin from the _backwoods_ and just imagine the kind of figure she’d
-cut in our set! Why, she’ll likely have the oddest clothes and speak
-most horrible English and, and—not know beans. And then that would
-spoil all our plans for getting in with Edith Browning. The Brownings,
-you know, are such an aristocratic family and are the whole cheese
-since they moved to the city. I’m just crazy to get in with them, but
-of course if they saw me with that girl, that would spoil everything.
-Edith would know that my father had sprung from common ordinary farmers
-and we have just succeeded in making people think we had very important
-ancestors.
-
-HELEN—(_aside_) Gee! but isn’t she some snob. Well, nobody is deceived
-I can vouch for that. (_aloud._) I know Edith Browning is the whole
-thing just at present. I’ve met her several times and think she is
-lovely, (_pause_) not a bit stuck up, you know. Of course we want to
-get in with her, especially this winter when Beth Norton is going to
-visit her, for everybody will be having parties and things for her.
-
-MARGARET—And pray, who is Beth Norton?
-
-HELEN—Don’t you know? Why, she is the girl that all the girls at
-Erskine College were just crazy about. Why, they say there’s never
-been a girl there before who was as popular. And act! Why, she took
-the chief parts in all their plays and the girls said she had any
-professional actress beaten all to pieces. Oh yes, we must manage to
-get in with them if we can. Now about your cousin, say, why can’t you
-have her up for just a couple of days and keep her out of the way?
-
-MARGARET—Dad is bound that I’ll invite her up for two weeks anyway. I
-can generally manage him pretty well, but this time he’s as obstinate
-as a mule. I’m glad I didn’t inherit his bad qualities.
-
-HELEN—(_aside_) I think she has all of his and some of her own to boot,
-(_aloud_) I have an idea. Write her such a letter that if she has any
-sense at all she’ll know she’s not wanted and then perhaps she won’t
-come.
-
-MARGARET—(_jumping up_) That _is_ a good idea! Let’s write it now. What
-shall we put into it? (_goes to a table where there is paper and ink,
-sits down to write_)
-
-HELEN—(_going to the table_) Tell her that,—oh, I don’t know. You
-ought to be good at that sort of thing. (_Margaret looks up sharply_).
-Writing letters I mean. You can write such splendid ones, you know.
-(_Margaret writes awhile while Helen looks over her shoulder._)
-
-MARGARET—(_rising_) There, that ought to do the trick. What do you
-think of it?
-
-HELEN—Well, if she can’t take the hint from that that she’s not wanted,
-she must be as dense as a—a fog! (_goes to put on her hat._) I must go
-for I promised to stay only a few minutes. Good-bye (_goes towards the
-door_) I hope your cousin won’t be too boorish if she does come.
-
-MARGARET—Good-bye. We’ll trust to luck. (_Helen disappears. Margaret
-comes to centre of stage_) Well, that letter _is_ a good stunt, but my,
-wouldn’t dad be angry if he knew! But I’ll chance it that he doesn’t
-find out. Now for a toast. (_Pretends to drink._) Here’s to the refusal
-of my invitation to my country cousin.
-
-
-CURTAIN
-
-
-
-
-SCENE II
-
-
-(_A country kitchen. Elizabeth in middy and skirt, enters slowly toward
-centre of stage, examining an envelope._)
-
-ELIZABETH—(_still examining envelope._) I wonder who this letter’s
-from. I don’t know the writing and it’s from New York City. But there’s
-lot of people I know there. Perhaps it’s from one of those little girls
-at Erskine College that were always getting a crush on us bigger girls
-and bothering us to death with their gushing. Now, who is it from
-anyway? (_laughing._) Say, I never thought of it, but perhaps if I
-opened it I’d find out. (_Opens and glances over it, and seems amazed
-and reads very slowly aloud._)
-
-                             14 Riverside Drive, New York City.
-
-    Dear Cousin Elizabeth:
-
-    Father wished me to write and ask you to visit us for a
-    couple of weeks. I know that you really wouldn’t want
-    to come as you’d feel so shy and awkward in a city home
-    and among the girls in our set and doubtless you have
-    no clothes suitable for the city; but as he wished me
-    to ask you, I have done so.
-
-                                 Yours truly,
-                                         Margaret Neilson.
-
-(_Elizabeth looks up bewildered._)
-
-ELIZABETH—What a queer letter! I wonder if any of the girls are playing
-a trick on me. (_thinks._) Now, I have it. I’ve heard mother mention
-her brother, Jerry Neilson, who went to the city and his aristocratic
-wife made him cut his country relations when they got rich. So this
-must be from my cousin. But how could any girl write such a rude,
-insolent letter like that! She certainly was forced to write against
-her will. I bet her father never saw that letter. It would serve her
-right if I sent it to him. I’d feel out of place in a city home and in
-her set! Well, (_laughing_) that’s a joke, when I’ve been in some of
-the best homes in New York City. I wonder what Edith Browning would say
-to that and a lot of the other girls at dear old Erskine. Well, my dear
-cousin, I’ll just write you a polite note of refusal.
-
-(_Goes to table and writes, then reads aloud_).
-
-“Miss Edith Norton regrets with pleasure the sincerely cordial and
-hospitable invitation of Miss Margaret Neilson.” Oh, (_suddenly
-jumping and clapping her hands._) I’ve an idea! I’ll accept my kind
-and hospitable cousin’s invitation since she’s so anxious to have me
-and since she expects me to be such a queer freak from the backwoods,
-it would be too bad to disappoint her, so I’ll dress and act the part
-of the poor country cousin she’s looking for. Oh, (_dancing around_)
-it will be heaps of fun. I’ll stay there a day and then I’ll pay Edith
-Browning that visit I’ve promised her for ages. (_Going towards the
-exit._) The girls at Erskine always said I was a born actress and now
-I’ll have the chance to prove whether they were just flattering me
-or not. (_Stops and glances at the address, 14 Riverside Drive._)
-Why, Mildred Ewing lives just a couple houses from there. I’ll dress
-there and just slip over when the coast is clear. There’s some of my
-masquerade costumes up in the attic. I’ll run and see if I can find
-something suitable for my new role. Say, but won’t I lead my dear
-cousin a merry dance! (_Laughs and runs off the stage._)
-
-
-CURTAIN
-
-
-
-
-SCENE III
-
-(_Sitting room in Neilson’s house. Margaret is seated doing fancywork.
-Helen comes in and Margaret rushes to meet her._)
-
-
-HELEN—Say, what’s up now that you had to have me come over in such a
-hurry? Have you any startling news? (_Both go towards centre._)
-
-MARGARET—Oh Helen, I’m in a terrible fix and all over that awful letter
-you made me write to—
-
-HELEN—(_interrupting indignantly._) I made you write!
-
-MARGARET—Yes, to Elizabeth—or Lizzie as I guess she’s called. Would you
-ever think she’d accept that invitation?
-
-HELEN—No, she hasn’t, has she?
-
-MARGARET—Yes, she has and here’s her answer. (_shows her a letter
-written on some very brightly colored paper or wrapping paper._) Just
-look at the spelling and the style! Wouldn’t it crimp you? And just
-wait until I read it to you (_begins to read, while Helen follows her
-over her shoulder and giggles all through the reading of it._)
-
-    Dear Maggie—(_Isn’t that abominable?_)—
-
-    I’ve been wanting ter visit the city ever since I was
-    skin high to a grasshopper, but didn’t know I had any
-    kin in the city that I could visit. It’s awferlly kind
-    of youse to ask me and I’ll be there as sure as guns
-    this coming Wednesday. I jest got some new clothes made
-    by Susannah Sparks and they’re mighty stylish, I kin
-    tell yer. I aint a bit bashful so youse kin invite all
-    the people in youse like. I’d like ter meet yer friends
-    awful well. Remember me to yer pap.
-
-                                 Yers to a sliver,
-                                          Lizzie Norton.
-
-(_throws the letter down on the table in disgust and makes a face._)
-Isn’t that perfectly awful? That means she’ll be here to-morrow and oh,
-she must be dreadful! And what if she should tell dad about that awful
-letter we wrote! Oh, why did I do it, and whatever will I do? (_Sinks
-down in chair and begins to cry._)
-
-HELEN—(_going over and putting her arm around her._) Oh, cheer up!
-Things might be worse. You can manage to avoid the girls for awhile
-and you can give Lizzie books to read or something to keep her in the
-background and out of mischief.
-
-MARGARET—(_drying her eyes._) It’s a good thing she isn’t coming today
-for you know I’ve invited Edith Browning for tea and I want to be on my
-best behavior and be as nice as I can so as to make a good impression.
-If Lizzie were here, I would be mortified to death. (_bell rings behind
-stage._) Oh, there’s the bell. It’s too early for Edith. I wonder who
-it is. (_goes to the door and looks out._) There’s Nora answering the
-door now. (_throws up her hands in horror._) Good heavens, who can that
-awful person be!
-
-HELEN—What person? (_Goes and looks too and giggles._) Goodness, I bet
-she’s escaped from some asylum. But listen, Nora’s going to settle her.
-(_both listen at door._)
-
-NORA—(_behind the scenes_) Yez can’t come in here. This is no place for
-the likes of ye. Ye’d better thry the asylum where ye belong.
-
-ELIZABETH—(_behind the scenes_) Yer’d better go there yerself. Let me
-tell yer that I kin come in if I want ter. I’ve come to visit my Uncle
-Jerry and yer needn’t think a red-haired freckled flip of a thing like
-yer can stop me. Now stop making a door of yerself and let me through
-or I’ll tell my cousin Maggie on yer.
-
-HELEN—Good heavens, here she comes! (_Drags Margaret to front of stage
-where they both fall limp into chairs._)
-
-MARGARET—Merciful powers, it’s Lizzie! Isn’t she—(_Elizabeth appears at
-door, dressed in a most ridiculous fashion and carries an old-fashioned
-telescope and a big satchel. Both girls sit staring at her._)
-
-ELIZABETH—(_Rushing up to them and throwing down her telescope_)
-Helloa, girls! Be one of youse my cousin Maggie? I’m Lizzie Norton. I
-got a chance ter come up a day earlier so I didn’t think it would make
-any odds. (_The girls have jumped to their feet thunder-struck._)
-
-ELIZABETH—(_looks from one to the other_) Say, what’s the matter with
-youse? Be youse both deef and dumb?
-
-MARGARET—(_extending her hand which Elizabeth seizes_) I’m _Margaret_
-Neilson so I suppose you must be my cousin Lizzie. We were not
-expecting you until to-morrow. (_Aside to Helen._) Oh, Helen, isn’t she
-perfectly dreadful?
-
-HELEN—(_aside to Margaret_) Well, I should say! And her clothes sure
-are the latest style as there’s never been any like them—yet!
-
-ELIZABETH—(_tugging at the elastic on her hat_) Well, youse didn’t tell
-me ter take off my hat, but I guess I’ll make myself ter hum. (_Takes
-off her hat and throws it on the couch and stares around._) My, aint
-everything here perfectly grand! (_Goes around the room._) Youse folks
-must be pretty stylish. Now, ter home us folks aint never seen such
-nice things. (_Turns suddenly._) Say, how’s Uncle Jerry, Maggie?
-
-MARGARET—If you’re referring to my father, his name is J. Ernest
-Neilson, so please call him Uncle Ernest. As for myself, I detest the
-name of Maggie. _Do_ call me Margaret.
-
-ELIZABETH—Oh, yer rather peppery aint yer? I’m sure Jerry is just as
-good a name as yer kin find anywhere. Why, we named our old white horse
-that and a better horse yer couldn’t have. As for Maggie, our black
-and white spotted cow is called that and she gives more milk than any
-of them. (_Margaret looks more and more disgusted and Helen amused._)
-Say, aint you going to interduce me to your friend? At hum we always
-interduce everybody to everybody else.
-
-MARGARET—I beg your pardon. This is my friend, Miss Helen Montgomery.
-(_Helen raises her hand very high and Elizabeth pulls it down and
-shakes it heartily._)
-
-ELIZABETH—Please ter meet you, Helly. I suspect I’ll get real
-acquainted with yer before my visit’s over. Yer don’t look quite as
-stuck-uppish as my cousin there. (_Margaret makes a face while Helen
-laughs._)
-
-HELEN—I feel greatly complimented, I’m sure. (_Aside_) She’s summed up
-Margaret pretty well for a green country girl.
-
-ELIZABETH—(_examining the girl’s clothes_) Say, girls, yer dressed up
-mighty swell. Be yer going to a party?
-
-MARGARET—(_proudly_) Why, no, these are just our every-day clothes.
-
-ELIZABETH—(_in surprise_). You don’t say! (_Smoothing down her own
-dress proudly._) Don’t you like my new dress? (_Margaret looks
-disdainful._) I was bound to have Susannah make it stylish and put in
-all the pleats and frills she could. I think she made a real good job
-of it, don’t youse?
-
-HELEN—(_sarcastically_) Why, yes, I think it is beautiful (_looking
-at Elizabeth’s hat_) and what a lovely hat you have and so becoming.
-(_Turns her back to laugh._)
-
-ELIZABETH—(_getting the hat and turning it around in her hand_) Yes, I
-think it mighty nice and so should it be for it was awferlly expensive.
-I paid $1.98 for the shape itself at (_names a local milliner_) and
-I trimmed it myself. (_Puts it back on sofa. Helen and Margaret sit
-down._)
-
-HELEN—(_aside_) It wouldn’t need a detective to make that discovery,
-that’s one thing sure.
-
-ELIZABETH—(_unfastening satchel and taking out a gaily colored
-centre-piece_) Now, I’ll jest set down and work at this centre-piece.
-(_Sits down in rocking chair and works._) I’m going to give it to you,
-Mag—_Margaret_, I mean, for yer parler table.
-
-MARGARET—(_aside_) Oh, gee, imagine that on our highly polished table.
-I guess it will be more likely to adorn the attic. (_aloud_) Oh, that’s
-very nice of you. By the way, how did you find your way here?
-
-HELEN—Oh yes, how did you when you had never been in the city before?
-
-ELIZABETH—Well, now, I did have a mighty hard time of it at first. I
-asked one of them policemen if he could tell me where Uncle Jer—where
-Mr. J. Ernest Neilson lived and he just laughed at me. (_She keeps
-rocking._)
-
-HELEN—Well, I should think he would. Didn’t you know any better than
-that?
-
-ELIZABETH—(_still sewing_) Why, I was told that them policemen could
-answer any kind of a question. At hum everybody knows where everybody
-else lives so I thought it would be the same here. (_Both girls
-laugh._) Anyway he asked what his address was and I showed him the top
-of yer letter.
-
-MARGARET—(_in horror_) You didn’t show him my letter!
-
-ELIZABETH—Sure and he must have got a good squint at what was in it,
-too, for he looked so funny. Well he told me to get into one of them
-street car things, and the feller who was all dressed up in brass
-buttons and took the tickets told me when to get into another so it was
-real easy. But I think the people here are dreadfully imperlite. They
-kept giggling and giggling. I asked one what the joke was and she grew
-awfully red and didn’t answer. I think it’s mighty rude not to tell
-other folks the joke, why down to hum—(_looks up just as the girls are
-turning up their noses_). Say, what’s the matter with your noses? Have
-they nervous twitches in them? Get a bottle of Dr. Cure-all’s syrup of
-tar at (_name of local druggist_) and it will soon stop that for it
-cured my cold. (_Rising and throwing fancy work on chair._) Laws a me,
-I’m awfully thirsty. Where’s the kitchen (_goes towards door, Margaret
-starts up_). Never mind coming. I’ll just use the dipper so you don’t
-need to get me a glass.
-
-MARGARET—Well, tell Nora to get you a drink. (_Exit Elizabeth_). Oh
-Helen, I never saw anybody so common—
-
-HELEN—(_interrupting_). Why she’s the most _un_common specimen I ever
-met in all my life.
-
-MARGARET—(_proceeding_)—and horrid before—and oh, (_jumping up in
-consternation_), I forgot all about Edith coming. She’ll be here soon
-now and I simply must get Lizzie out of the way before she comes. Oh
-Helen, (_putting her arm around her_), hurry up and think up something
-to help me out of this hole.
-
-HELEN—(_aside_), And she was so grateful when I tried to help her the
-last time. But she’s in a pretty tight box now so I guess I’ll have
-to try and patch it up. I wish her _important ancestors_ had given
-her some brains. (_Aloud._) Oh, tell her—tell her—. Now let me think
-(_thinks for a minute and suddenly grabs Margaret’s arm_). I have it.
-Tell her that you know she must be very tired after her long journey
-and that you’re sure she would like to rest and have tea quietly in
-her own room. Nora could take it up on a tray. Lizzie will think it’s
-so considerate of you, I’m pretty sure, and the novelty of having
-things sent up to her might appeal to her. Let’s try it anyway.
-
-MARGARET—All right. I’d try anything. (_Elizabeth appears._) But here
-she comes now. (_Elizabeth comes toward centre and Margaret goes to
-meet her and puts her arm around Elizabeth’s waist_). Oh Lizzie, I know
-you must be pretty tired after your long journey. I think perhaps you
-had better rest quietly until tea time. Then I’ll tell Nora to fix you
-up a nice dainty tray and you’ll be under no nervous strain at all.
-
-ELIZABETH—Me tired after that speck of a ride on the train! Why I’ve
-saw me walk five miles ter town and go home and milk ten cows and not
-be a bit the worse for it. And talk about nerves. Well I may be _nervy_
-but I aint got them nerves that make people act like sillies. Now I’ll
-just go up and put on my red chiny silk dress Susannah fixed up that
-stylish with yeller bows and six frills and point de spit lace. It will
-only take me a few minutes and I’ll be down in lots of time for supper.
-(_Gets valise and goes towards exit, then stops at one end of stage_),
-(_Aside_), I guess it’s time that I ended this farce. I think I’ve
-given my dear cousin a pretty strong jolt, judging from her face and
-actions. Gee, she’s the limit all right. Anyway, I had better change
-into a decent dress as I would hate to offend Uncle Jerry—I mean _Uncle
-J. Ernest Neilson_ (_exit Elizabeth_).
-
-(_Margaret sits moodily in chair with head propped on knees. Helen sits
-toying with some fancy work._)
-
-HELEN—For goodness sake, Margaret, cheer up, you’re not dead yet!
-
-MARGARET—I wish I were. What am I going to do? and Edith is due any
-minute. I wonder what made Lizzie strike today.
-
-HELEN—(_explosively_) Well, do you know, I like her!
-
-MARGARET—(_in surprise_) Do you really? Well, I believe I do myself.
-There’s something rather refreshing about her and she’s so frank and
-good-natured. She doesn’t bear the least grudge for that horrid letter
-we sent. Perhaps she doesn’t see anything wrong with it though. Oh,
-whatever made me do it? I feel as mean as dirt everytime I think of it.
-I’d give anything if I had never written it.
-
-HELEN—Yes, I guess it was pretty shabby, but what’s done cannot be
-undone. Anyway, I don’t suppose she knows enough to take offense at it.
-(_Starting up._) Oh, I have an idea!
-
-MARGARET—(_moodily_), I notice that you do catch on to one once in a
-while. Well let’s hear it.
-
-HELEN—(_aside in disgust_) Now, wouldn’t that crimp you! She couldn’t
-find an idea all by herself in a thousand years. (_Aloud_). Why, I was
-just thinking that Lizzie would look quite pretty if she had a decent
-dress to wear and was fixed up some. Now, what’s to hinder you lending
-her one of your pretty dresses and doing her hair in some becoming
-fashion? I bet she wouldn’t look bad at all.
-
-MARGARET—Why, she wouldn’t. I’ll go right up now and do it (_starts
-toward exit_), or she’ll be coming down in some awful concoction of a
-dress. Oh, dear, I feel awfully nervous.
-
-HELEN—Did you hear what she said about nerves? The very idea, when
-nerves are all the go now. (_Bell rings_). Oh, there’s Edith now. I
-wish she had stayed away for half an hour longer.
-
-MARGARET—So do I. And however will I manage to fix Lizzie up now?
-
-HELEN—Talk for a few minutes and then excuse yourself and I’ll
-entertain Edith until you come back.
-
-MARGARET—(_warmly_) Helen, you’re a dear and just full of ideas. I
-don’t know what I’d do without you. (_Goes out_).
-
-HELEN—(_aside dramatically_), Behold the expanding of Miss Margaret
-Neilson’s character. She is actually wakening up to what I am trying to
-do for her and has even expressed one grain of gratitude. Well I guess
-I’ll hang on to the grain, perhaps it will sprout. (_Sees Lizzie’s hat
-and fancy work._) Goodness I’d better get these out of sight or they’d
-be a sure giveaway. (_Runs and thrusts fancy work under a cushion and
-throws hat behind couch. Margaret appears arm in arm with Edith who is
-well but quietly dressed. Helen goes to meet them._)
-
-MARGARET—You know Helen Montgomery don’t you, Miss Browning?
-
-EDITH—Oh call me Edith, it’s more sociable and I’ll call you Margaret.
-Why yes, (_shaking hands with Helen_), I have met you several times,
-haven’t I? Coming to a new city it takes a person quite awhile to get
-acquainted, but I’m managing not too badly.
-
-HELEN—Why, I should say not. You have made hosts of friends already
-from all accounts.
-
-EDITH—Yes, everybody has been awfully kind to me and then I’d met
-several people when I was at Erskine. (_All girls take seats, Edith
-sitting where she can see the exit by turning slightly._) I hope you
-girls weren’t expecting me any sooner. I had some shopping to do and
-that delayed me.
-
-MARGARET—Oh, that’s all right, but we were just saying we wish you’d
-hurry up so that we could have a nice, long chat about everything
-before supper, so—
-
-HELEN—(_interrupting_) Oh, Edith, do tell us about some of the jolly
-times you had at Erskine College. I’m just aching to hear about them.
-(_Draws chair closer to Edith_).
-
-MARGARET—Yes, please do! (_Draws her chair closer_).
-
-EDITH—Why, I could tell you lots, but really I wouldn’t know where to
-begin and once I began, I wouldn’t know where to stop. For one thing
-we used to have midnight suppers whenever one of the girls would get a
-box from home. We’d all meet in one room and have nothing but candles
-for a light and when we heard anyone coming, we would have to blow them
-out, quick as wink. Oh, but it was exciting when we heard any footsteps
-outside! There’d be a wild scamper, I can tell you.
-
-HELEN AND MARGARET—I guess there would be. What would you do?
-
-EDITH—Everybody would grab the first thing that came handy and we’d
-make ourselves as small as possible. We’d squeeze four or five into bed
-with the eats and a few under while the rest would get into a closet.
-One of the girls would snore and the teacher would think she was asleep
-and pass on. It was pretty hard on the eats, though, being grabbed
-in such a hurry and getting all crushed up, but then it was lots of
-excitement and fun.
-
-HELEN—What else did you do?
-
-EDITH—Well, we put on some pretty good amateur plays. Beth Norton, was
-simply grand in anything like that. Say, (_with enthusiasm_) you just
-ought to know Beth. She’s the dearest girl out. Everybody raved over
-her at Erskine. She was just bubbling over with fun and mischief and
-kept things lively all the time. She was so good-hearted and kind too
-and had the most forgiving nature. One girl said she was so full of fun
-that there wasn’t a speck of room for spite to lodge in.
-
-MARGARET—She must be lovely. I’d like awfully well to meet her.
-
-EDITH—Well, I don’t see why you couldn’t for I just got a letter from
-her and she said she was going to visit me in a couple days. She said
-she was visiting some snobbish cousin of hers who needs to be taken
-down a peg or two. I’d love to see her do it, but I wouldn’t like to be
-the cousin, I can tell you.
-
-MARGARET—No, nor I either, but those people who put on such airs ought
-to have it taken out of them some way or other. I wonder who she is.
-
-EDITH—I don’t know. Beth wouldn’t think of giving her away. (_Helen
-stares fixedly at Margaret and nods. Margaret rises_).
-
-MARGARET—I wonder if you’d excuse me for a few minutes. I have some
-things I must attend to.
-
-EDITH—Why of course. Don’t hurry back. (_Gazes at Margaret starting to
-go out. Elizabeth appears at exit very daintily dressed._)
-
-EDITH—(_rushing past Margaret seizes Elizabeth and hugs her_), Why
-Beth, you dear girl, (_pulls her towards centre_), wherever did you
-come from? The girls were just saying they didn’t know you. (_Margaret
-and Helen both stand in amazement._) That’s funny.
-
-ELIZABETH—Oh, helloa Edith! I didn’t know you knew my cousin. I’m just
-staying here until to-morrow and then I’m going to your place for
-awhile.
-
-EDITH—(_aside in horror_), So this Margaret Neilson is the snob Beth
-is to take down a peg. Good gracious, but I’ve put my foot into it.
-(_Edith and Beth go to one side and eagerly converse in low tones_).
-
-MARGARET—(_to Helen_), Lizzie, Beth Norton! Why whatever does it mean
-anyway? (_thinks_), How can she be one and the same person? Oh, oh, I
-see it now. The names are both nicknames and I never imagined my cousin
-Elizabeth was the much talked of Beth. And so I’m the snob that Edith
-said Beth was to take down a peg! (_Pauses_) And the worst of it is I
-know I deserve it after that horrible letter. I don’t deserve to have
-her ever speak to me again.
-
-HELEN—But, whatever did she mean by dressing up like that!
-
-MARGARET—Why, don’t you see? Didn’t you say that when she acted, she
-had all the professionals beaten to pieces? Well, she’s acted that
-country gawk I inferred in that letter to take me down that peg. Gee,
-she’s taken me down a whole bunch of them. And oh look how we treated
-her since she came. Oh, Helen, I’m so ashamed. I wish there was a hole
-in the floor so that I could crawl into it.
-
-HELEN—(_aside_), Thank goodness, she’s admitted that much. There’s hope
-for her yet. (_Aloud._) We both acted awfully mean and for my part I’m
-going to take my pill and swallow it.
-
-MARGARET—I will too. It’s mighty bitter, but the worse the medicine
-tastes, as a rule, the better are the results. I’ll never—(_Elizabeth
-comes up to her_).
-
-ELIZABETH—Well, Mag—Margaret, I guess it’s up to me to explain. You see
-when I got your letter which showed me so plainly that you considered
-any person brought up in the country was some sort of a curiosity
-and nothing but an ignoramus, I thought I would come and explain to
-you that the farmers of today are among the best educated and most
-wealthy people there are and their daughters are receiving the very
-best advantages that can be gotten. But when I read your letter over, I
-couldn’t resist the temptation of acting the awkward gawk of a specimen
-you expected. Did I succeed?
-
-MARGARET—Succeed! Oh goodness, it was awful. (_Sinks into a chair and
-starts to cry_), Oh, Liz—Beth, I mean. I know I’ve been as nasty and
-snobbish as I could. And you don’t know how mean I’ve felt ever since
-I wrote that awful, awful letter. I’ve wished again and again that I’d
-never been so rude and horrid. Will you ever forgive me? (_Cries_).
-
-ELIZABETH—(_Putting her arm around her_), Oh, cheer up, Margaret, of
-course I’ll forgive you; you just need some of your notions changed.
-That’s all. And when it comes to forgiving, perhaps I’d better ask you
-to forgive me for playing such a trick on you. (_Aside, laughing_),
-But, gee it was the best fun I’ve had for ages. Their shocked faces!
-(_laugh_), their turned up noses, (_laughs_), their open disgust. Oh
-glory, it was worth a circus to see them.
-
-EDITH—Well, let’s forget everything that’s been done and said and begin
-all over again. I think we’ll be great friends. Let’s shake over it.
-(_She takes Helen’s hand, Elizabeth takes Margaret’s and they stand
-with crossed hands in front of stage_).
-
-ELIZABETH—Oh girls, see how our hands are crossed; I wonder who’s going
-to be married first.
-
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