Quality street : a comedy in four acts . Nozv and again ladies pass in their pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with an umbrella, for flakes of snow are falling discreetly Act I THE BLUE AND WHITE ROOM The scene is the blue and zvhite room in the house ofthe Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in QualityStreet; and in this little country town there is asatisfaction about living in Quality Street which evenreligion cannot give. Through the bowed windowat the back we have a glimpse of the street. It ispleasajitly broad and grass-grown, and is linked tothe outer zvorld by one demure shop, whose
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . Nozv and again ladies pass in their pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with an umbrella, for flakes of snow are falling discreetly Act I THE BLUE AND WHITE ROOM The scene is the blue and zvhite room in the house ofthe Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in QualityStreet; and in this little country town there is asatisfaction about living in Quality Street which evenreligion cannot give. Through the bowed windowat the back we have a glimpse of the street. It ispleasajitly broad and grass-grown, and is linked tothe outer zvorld by one demure shop, whose doorrings a bell every time it opens and shuts. Thus bymerely peeping, every otie in Quality Street can knoivat once who has been btiyitig a JfViimsy cake, andusually why. This bell is the 7nost familiar soundof Quality Street. Now and again ladies pass intheir pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with anumbrella, for flakes of snozv are falling in the street are an event; but, see, justas we raise the curtain,
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