CRAIG’S WIFE
9
Mrs. Harold
- All right, I will.
- [Mazie comes down the stairs.
Mrs. Craig (moving down to the mirror, removing her coat)
- And will you bring a glass of water, please, Mrs. Harold.
Mrs. Harold
- Yes, Ma’m. Just one glass?
Mrs. Craig
- Yes, I don’t want any.
- [Mrs. Harold goes out again.
Ethel
- Aren’t these roses beautiful. (Mrs. Craig shifts her eyes from Mazie, who is gathering Ethel’s things up from the table, and looks steadily at the roses) I don’t think I’ve ever seen such lovely roses.
Mrs. Craig
- Yes, they’re very nice. Take those things upstairs, Mazie.
Mazie (starting up the stairs)
- Yes, Ma’m.
Mrs. Craig
- And I wish you’d use that back way when you go up and down stairs, Mazie.
Mazie (coming down again)
- I always keep forgettin’ that.
- [Ethel turns and looks at Mazie, and Mrs. Craig, laying her coat across Mazie’s arm as she passes her, moves up to look at the stairs closely, Mazie goes out at the right.
Mrs. Craig
- This stairway’ll soon look the way it did before, with everybody tramping up and down it every five minutes, (She turns to Ethel with a kind of apologetic smile, and
