12
CRAIG’S WIFE
Mrs. Craig
- But, what could you do if you’d stayed, dear?
Ethel (with a touch of desperation)
- I’d at least know what was going on.
Mrs. Craig (handing her the glass of water, and putting her arm around her shoulder)
- Now, don’t upset yourself, Ethel. Here, take a sip of this water. I’m perfectly sure you’re magnifying the seriousness of your mother’s condition, dear. And I most certainly should never have come away myself only that I’ve seen this same thing over and over again. (She turns and settles the photograph on the piano) Besides, there isn’t a solitary thing we could do if we’d stayed; those nurses won’t allow it. (Taking the glass from Ethel) And the doctor said I was upsetting your mother;—simply because I told her a few things I thought she should be told.
- [She crosses to the table and sets down the glass.
Ethel
- There was something I wanted to tell her, too, but he said he thought I’d better wait.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, I’d have told her anyway, if I’d been you.
Ethel
- I’m rather sorry now I didn’t,—I think it would have made her easier in her mind.
Mrs. Craig (taking her handkerchief from her bag)
- Was it something important?
Ethel
- It was about Professor Fredericks, at school. Mother met him last year when she was up there at Commencement, and she liked him very much. And when we got
