Excerpt from Over the Hills: A Comedy in One Act
It is a wild night outside, but the dining-room is entirely weatherproof. There is a blazing fire, and Mrs. Wilma stitches comfortably beside it. Her work-basket is within reach on a small oak table. On the other side of this table is the most comfortable chair in the room; but Mr. Wilde is not sitting within it. He is obviously restless. At one moment he stands at the back of the stage, looking out into the night round the edge of the Venetian blind. Then with a fierce light in his eyes he paces forward down the length of the room and back to the window. When he faces the audience, he passes the fire and his wife and the comfortable chairs on his right.
Except for Mr. Wilde, it is a picture of restfulness. The best house coal from the local agent is burning in the grate. The carpets are genuine Persian, and the furniture is old oak. The folding table (real Jacobean) is pushed back to the wall away from the fire, leaving a noble space in the centre of the room. Along this wall is an oak dresser, obviously a genuine antique.
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