Quality street : a comedy in four acts . RIETTA The blinds of her room are kept most art-fully drawn. MISS FANNY [Plaintively) We have never seen her, Miss Susan nor Miss Phoebe willpresent her to us, VALENTINE {Impressed) Indeed. 175 Qttality Street [act (miss HENRIETTA and MISS FANNY, en-cotiraged by his sympathy, drawnearer the door of the interesting bed-chamber. They falter. Any one whothinks, however, that they would so farforget themselves as to open the doorand peep in, has no nnderstaiiding ofthe ladies of Quality Street. Theyare, nevertheless, not perfect, for uissHENRIET
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . RIETTA The blinds of her room are kept most art-fully drawn. MISS FANNY [Plaintively) We have never seen her, Miss Susan nor Miss Phoebe willpresent her to us, VALENTINE {Impressed) Indeed. 175 Qttality Street [act (miss HENRIETTA and MISS FANNY, en-cotiraged by his sympathy, drawnearer the door of the interesting bed-chamber. They falter. Any one whothinks, however, that they would so farforget themselves as to open the doorand peep in, has no nnderstaiiding ofthe ladies of Quality Street. Theyare, nevertheless, not perfect, for uissHENRIETTA kuocks on the door) MISS HENRIETTA How do you find yourself, dear MissLivvy? [There is no answer. It is our pride to record that they come away without even totiching the handle. They look appealing at captain brown, whose face has grown grave) VALENTINE I think, ladies, as a physician— [He walks into the bedroom. They feelan ignoble drawing to follow him, butdo not yield to it. IVhen he returnshis face is inscrutable.)176 *^:>.. ^Mct A-.
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