Excerpt from The Triple Wedding: A Drama in Three Acts

Scene. A plainly furnished lodging-room in a city tenement. Old table and three cane-chairs. Some coarse sewing materials and lamp on table. Entrances first right and left, and at back.

Time. Night in winter.

[Curtain discovers Salome and Cecely Sturgis seated by table sewing. Both plainly dressed.]

Salome (wearily). Oh, I'm so tired. I hate poverty. I'd give anything or do anything to be rich.

Cecely. It is not much we can give. Nobody cares to marry a poor girl.

Salome (shivers as if cold). Get my shawl, deary. It's dreadfully cold here.

Cecely. You forget, sister; we ate the shawl for breakfast. Clara sold it yesterday, and the money paid for our milk and oatmeal. It was a rather thin diet, in spite of its origin. I called the oatmeal the shawl, and the milk the trimmings. It was a pity you had a square shawl, for the meal didn't go round.

Salome. What do you mean?

Cecely. Why, sister Clara had no breakfast.

Salome. No breakfast - nothing to eat?

Cecely. Not a thing. She pretended she was n't hungry. She starved herself to help us.

Salome. Do you think Mr. Greenfield intends to marry Clara?

Cecely (rises). I'd die before I would marry a man called Monday - or take in plain sewing, which is only dying to slow music. (Earnestly. Takes stage.) Oh! Everything is put together with a lock-stitch. I can't unravel our seam. I can only sigh (sings). Sigh for a man - sigh for a man -

Salome. My love!

Cecely (singing). Sigh for a man - sigh for a mansion and a carriage.

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