Bring me a little whisky,
Christy.
_Christy goes to Cabinet. Muskerry follows him_.
CHRISTY
There's none in the bottle, Mister Muskerry.
MUSKERRY
_(bitterly)_ No, I suppose not. And is that rascal, Albert
Crilly, coming back?
CHRISTY
He's coming, Mister Muskerry. I left the novelette on the
table. Miss Coghlan says it's a nice love story. "The Heart of
Angelina," it is called.
MUSKERRY
I haven't the heart to read.
_The bell continues to toll. Christy goes to door_.
CHRISTY
Good night, Mister Muskerry.
MUSKERRY
Good night, Christy.
_Christy Clarke goes out through apartments. Thomas Muskerry is
standing with hand on arm chair. The bell tolls_.
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ACT SECOND
_In Crilly's, a month later. The room is the parlour off the shop.
A glass door, right, leads into the shop, and the fireplace is above
this door. In the back, right, is a cupboard door. Back is a window
looking on the street. A door, left, leads to other rooms. There is
a table near shop door and a horse-hair sofa back, an armchair at
fire, and two leather-covered chairs about. Conventional pictures on
walls, and two certificates framed, showing that some one in the
house has passed some Intermediate examinations._
_It is the forenoon of an April day. Mrs. Crilly is seated on sofa,
going through a heap of account books.
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