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CRAIG’S WIFE
Mazie
- All right, Mr. Craig, I’ll call you when he comes.
- [Mazie goes out to answer the bell, and Craig goes up the stairs. He stops halfway up and thinks.
Boy’s voice (at the front door)
- Why, Christine, up at the corner, sez if you’re goin’ to the Society to-night, would you mind payin’ her dues for her; she sez she can’t go to-night.
- [Craig disappears.
Mazie
- Oh, sure, tell her I’ll be glad to.
Boy’s voice
- She sez the card’s in the envelope there with the money.
- [Mrs. Harold comes in through the portières and crosses towards the door, looking out keenly.
Mazie
- All right, dear, tell her I’ll tend to it.
- [The screen door slams and Mazie comes in.
Mrs. Harold
- Did you answer that door, Mazie?
Mazie (crossing below the table to the mantelpiece)
- Yes, it was the tailor’s little boy, up at the corner, with Christine’s Society money. He sez Christine can’t go to-night.
Mrs. Harold
- Is to-night Society night again already?
Mazie (putting an envelope back of the center ornament on the mantelpiece)
- It’s the third Friday.
Mrs. Harold
- I can never keep track of that old Society.
