Quality street : a comedy in four acts . I !. She perceives a meaning smile pass between Charlotte and the Ensign PHOEBE {Paling) Is it that you desire to make sportof me? K 73 Quality Street [act BLADES {Honestly distressed) Oh no, maam, I vow—but I—I am such a quiz, maam. MISS SUSAN Sister I PHOEBE I am sorry, sir, to have to deprive you ofsome entertainment, but I am not going to theball. MISS SUSAN {Haughtily) Ensign Blades, I bid you myadieux. BLADES {Ashamed) If I have hurt Miss Phoebesfeelings I beg to apologise. MISS SUSAN If you have hurt them. Oh, sir, how is itpossible for any one t
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . I !. She perceives a meaning smile pass between Charlotte and the Ensign PHOEBE {Paling) Is it that you desire to make sportof me? K 73 Quality Street [act BLADES {Honestly distressed) Oh no, maam, I vow—but I—I am such a quiz, maam. MISS SUSAN Sister I PHOEBE I am sorry, sir, to have to deprive you ofsome entertainment, but I am not going to theball. MISS SUSAN {Haughtily) Ensign Blades, I bid you myadieux. BLADES {Ashamed) If I have hurt Miss Phoebesfeelings I beg to apologise. MISS SUSAN If you have hurt them. Oh, sir, how is itpossible for any one to be as silly as you seemto be? BLADES {Who caiinot find the answer) Charlotte—explain. {But CHARLOTTE considers that theirvisit has not been sufficiently esteemed 74 II.] Quality Street and departs with a cold curtsey, tak-ing him with her.)(miss SUSAN turns sympathetically toPHOEBE, but PHOEBE, Jightiug witJiher pain, sits down at the spinet andplays at first excitedly a gay tune,then slowly, then conies to a stop withher head bowed.
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