tty--a Duse, that's what she is--a
real Duse! [_He gathers up his cards._] And the gods are kind to me--I've
got a hand, I tell you! I call NO TRUMPS!
[_He beams at them--they are placidly sorting their cards. He
puts his hand down and proceeds to look at his dummy, as the
curtain falls._
CURTAIN
A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED....
THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
MR. HARRISON CROCKSTEAD
LADY ALINE DE VAUX
_Produced at the
Garrick Theatre
on March 27, 1904_
A MARRIAGE HAS BEEN ARRANGED....
SCENE _The conservatory of No. 300 Grosvenor Square. Hour, close on
midnight. A ball is in progress, and dreamy waltz music is heard in the
distance._
LADY ALINE DE VAUX _enters, leaning on the arm of_ MR. HARRISON
CROCKSTEAD.
LADY ALINE _is a tall, exquisitely-gowned girl, of the
conventional and much-admired type of beauty. Put her in any
drawing-room in the world, and she would at once be recognised as
a highborn Englishwoman. She has in her, in embryo, all those
excellent qualities that go to make a great lady: the icy stare,
the haughty movement of the shoulder, the disdainful arch of the
lip; she has also, but only an experienced observer would notice
it, something of wistfulness, something that speaks of a sore and
wounded heart--though it is sufficiently evident that this organ
is kept under admirable control. A girl who has been placed in a
position of life where artificiality rules, who has been taught
to be artificial and has thoroughly learned her lesson; yet one
who would unhesitatingly know the proper thing to do did a camel
bolt with her in the desert, or an eastern potentate invite her
to become his two hundred and fifty-seventh wife. In a word, a
lady of complete self-possession and magnificent control._ MR.
CROCKSTEAD _is a big, burly man of forty or so, and of the kind
to whom the ordinary West End butler would consider himself
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