The Coming of Annabel

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Excerpt from The Coming of Annabel: A Comedy in One Act Scene. A simply furnished room. Braided rugs on floor. Two old-fashioned rockers, oneR. c., one at L.c. A small table, a sofa, and straight-backed chair. Entrance at c.(At rise Mrs. Mary Wright is discovered r.c. sewing on a curtain. She is a pleasant-looking voman, slightly under middle age. A knock c.)Mrs. W.Come in. Enter Miss Jane Winter. She is a stern-looking woman with hair beginning to turn gray. Jane. How do you do, Mary? Am I the first? Mrs. W.(rising). The first? Jane. The first to come, of course. I hope you havent forgotten that we re holding a meeting here an indignant meeting, they call it. Good name, for we re all mad, I can tell you. Mrs. W.Of course (dubiously), about Jane (snappily). About Beulah Black. Its got to be stopped, Mary. Mrs. W.Oh, yes. But its a pity. I got a message just half an hour ago to say that my niece, Annabel Garland, is coming to-day, and Im rushing to get her room ready. Thats why the meeting kind of went out of my head for a while. Sit down, Jane. (They sit r.c, Mrs. W.taking up her seiving again.) Jane. I should think your niece could have put off her coming for a day. Mrs. W.Oh, Ive been expecting her a long time and this is the only day that would fit in, I guess. Shes an only child, and its hard to spare her. I must get these curtains hemmed and up. I want her room to look pretty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.