TriflesFrank Shay, 1916 - 23 oldal |
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1916 GEORGE HENDERSON ain't Ann Arbor apron awful bird bird-cage bottle bread-box cage chair and looks closet COUNTY ATTORNEY cupboard door left door rear Enter Sheriff familiar things feel front room fruit Goes to sink going to quilt guess heard coming HENRY PETERS John Wright kitchen knot know what stillness know who killed ladies laugh LEWIS HALE little shawl little things loaf of bread Looking upstairs Minnie Foster Moves nervous Opens box pans Peters bends pleatin pretty box Provincetown Pulls queer quilt pieces rockin roller towel rope round says Harry send Frank sewing basket Sheriff follows sheriff's wife sing slipped a rope slow look stairs stands looking Starts steps are heard steps back stove suppose SUSAN GLASPELL Presented talk tell there's things upstairs thought TRIFLES University Microfilms UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN voice wake WASHINGTON SQUARE PLAYERS wish women women's eyes wonder worrying Xerox
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21. oldal - Its neck! Look at its neck! It's all — other side to. MRS. PETERS: Somebody— wrung— its neck. (Their eyes meet. A look of growing comprehension of horror. Steps are heard outside. Mrs. Hale slips box under quilt pieces, and sinks into her chair. Enter Sheriff and County Attorney. Mrs. Peters rises.) COUNTY ATTORNEY (as one turning from serious things to little pleasantries): Well, ladies, have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it? MRS. PETERS: We think she was going to —...
11. oldal - I've not seen much of her of late years. I've not been in this house— it's more than a year. COUNTY ATTORNEY And why was that? You didn't like her? MRS. HALE I liked her all well enough. Farmers' wives have their hands full. Mr. Henderson. And then— COUNTY ATTORNEY Yes— ? MRS. HALE {Looking about.] It never seemed a very cheerful place. COUNTY ATTORNEY No— it's not cheerful. I shouldn't say she had the homemaking instinct. MRS. HALE Well, I don't know as Wright had. either. COUNTY ATTORNEY...
17. oldal - Why, it looks as if she didn't know what she was about ! [After she has said this they look at each other, then start to glance back at the door. After an instant MRS. HALE has pulled at a knot and ripped the sewing. MRS. PETERS Oh, what are you doing, Mrs. Hale? MRS. HALE [Mildly.] Just pulling out a stitch or two that's not sewed very good.
17. oldal - I've not been here for so long. There was a man around last year selling canaries cheap, but I don't know as she took one ; maybe she did. She used to sing real pretty herself. MRS. PETERS [Glancing around.] Seems funny to think of a bird here. But she must have had one, or why would she have a cage? I wonder what happened to it.
23. oldal - We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things — it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
25. oldal - It is too big. She opens box, starts to take bird out, cannot touch it, goes to pieces, stands there helpless. Sound of a knob turning in the other room. MRS. HALE snatches the box and puts it in the pocket of her big coat. Enter COUNTY ATTORNEY and SHERIFF. COUNTY ATTORNEY [Facetiously.] Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to quilt it. She was going to — what is it you call it, ladies ? MRS.
13. oldal - I think maybe that's why she kept so much to herself. She didn't even belong to the Ladies Aid. I suppose she felt she couldn't do her part and then you don't enjoy things when you feel shabby. She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that oh, that was thirty years ago.
14. oldal - Asking for an apron and her little shawl. Worrying about her fruit. MRS. PETERS [Starts to speak, glances up, where footsteps are heard in the room above. In a low voice.] Mr. Peters says it looks bad for her. Mr. Henderson is awful sarcastic in a speech and he'll make fun of her sayin
22. oldal - It was an awful thing was done in this house that night, Mrs. Hale,
12. oldal - ... three steps lead to a stair door.) SHERIFF: I suppose anything Mrs. Peters does'll be all right. She was to take in some clothes for her, you know, and a few little things. We left in such a hurry yesterday. COUNTY ATTORNEY: Yes, but I would like to see what you take, Mrs. Peters, and keep an eye out for anything that might be of use to us. MRS. PETERS: Yes, Mr. Henderson. (The women listen to the men's steps on the stairs, then look about the kitchen.) MRS.