Quality street : a comedy in four acts . MissPhoebe because some of her pretty airs and graces stillcling to her in a forlorn way, but she is much changed. G 49 Quality Street [acth. Her curls are out of sight under a cap, her manner isprim, the light lias gone from, her eyes and buoyancyfront her figure; she looks not ten years older buttwenty, and not an easy twenty. When the childrenare not looking at her we know that she has theheadache. PHOEBE (Who is sometimes at spinet and sometimesdancing) Toes out. So. Chest out, your toes, Miss Beveridge—so. So—keep in line; and young la
Quality street : a comedy in four acts . MissPhoebe because some of her pretty airs and graces stillcling to her in a forlorn way, but she is much changed. G 49 Quality Street [acth. Her curls are out of sight under a cap, her manner isprim, the light lias gone from, her eyes and buoyancyfront her figure; she looks not ten years older buttwenty, and not an easy twenty. When the childrenare not looking at her we know that she has theheadache. PHOEBE (Who is sometimes at spinet and sometimesdancing) Toes out. So. Chest out, your toes, Miss Beveridge—so. So—keep in line; and young ladies, rememberyour toes, (georgy in his desire to please hasprotruded the wrong part of his person. Shewrites a C on his chest with chalk.) C standsfor chest, Georgy. This is S. (miss SUSAN darts out of the other is less worn than miss phoebe.) MISS SUSAN {IVhispering SO that the pupils may not hear)Phoebe, how many are fourteen and seventeen ? PHOEBE [Almost instantly) Thirty-one. MISS SUSAN I thank you. {She darts off)50. She writes a C on his chest with chalk Quality Street [act PHOEBE That will do, ladies and gentlemen. Youmay go. (They bow or curtsey, and retire to missSusans room, with the exception of ARTHUR WELLESLEY TOMSON, who is standing in disgrace in a corner withthe cap of shame oji his head, andISABELLA, aforbidding-looking, learnedlittle girl. Isabella holds up herhand for permission to speak.) ISABELLA Please, maam, father wishes me to acquirealgebra. PHOEBE {IVith a sinking) Algebra! It—it is not avery ladylike study, Isabella. ISABELLA Father says, will you or wont you ? PHOEBE And you are thin. It will make you thinner,my dear. ISABELLA Father says I am thin but II.] Qua/ity Street PHOEBE Yes, you are. {IFith feeling) You are very-wiry, Isabella. ISABELLA Father says, either I acquire algebra or Igo to Miss Protheros establishment. PHOEBE Very well, I—I will do my best. Youmay go. (ISABELLA goes, and phoebe sitswearily) ARTHUR [Finge
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