A Family Man : in three acts by John Galsworthy
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ANNIE. Ah!
She goes across to the bedroom on the Right, and soon returns with a suit of pyjamas, a toothbrush, a pair of slippers and a case of razors, which she puts on the table, and disappears into the kitchen. She reappears with a bread pan, which she deposits in the centre of the room; then crosses again to the bedroom, and once more reappears with a clothes brush, two hair brushes, and a Norfolk jacket. As she stuffs all these into the bread pan and bears it back into the kitchen, there is the sound of a car driving up and stopping. ANNIE reappears at the kitchen door just as the knocker sounds. ANNIE. Vexin' and provokin'! [Knocker again. She opens the door] Oh! MR and MRS BUILDER enter. BUILDER. Mr and Mrs Builder. My daughter in? ANNIE. [Confounded] Oh! Sir, no, sir. BUILDER. My good girl, not "Oh! Sir, no, sir." Simply: No, Sir. See? ANNIE. Oh! Sir, yes, Sir. BUILDER. Where is she? ANNIE. Oh! Sir, I don't know, Sir. BUILDER. [Fixing her as though he suspected her of banter] Will she be |
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