| ACT I |
| The Blue and White Room |
| phoebe |
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| Now and again ladies pass in their pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with an umbrella, for flakes of snow are falling discreetly. |
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| Miss Fanny is reading aloud from a library book while the others sew or knit. |
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| miss willoughby |
| We are known everywhere now, Susan, you and I, as the old maids of Quality Street. |
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| miss susan |
| I think I hear their voices in dispute. |
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| phoebe |
| You know how gallantly he swings his cane. |
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| phoebe |
| He is absolutely fearless. Susan, he has smoked his pipe in this room. |
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| phoebe |
| It was raining, and my face was wet. |
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| valentine |
| To see her on her knees decorating the little legs of the couch with frills as if it were a child! |
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| ACT II |
| The School |
| Miss Phoebe is giving a dancing lesson to half a dozen pupils, and is doing her very best. |
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| phoebe |
| Unhappy boy—Are you ashamed of yourself? |
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| arthur |
| If any boy says you can't cane I will blood him, Miss Phoebe. |
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| A soldier with a girl passes—yokel follows angrily. |
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| Patty ushers in the sisters Willoughby and Miss Henrietta. Miss Henrietta is wearing the new veil, which opens or closes like curtains when she pulls a string. |
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| miss willoughby |
| We shall probably spend the evening here with Miss Susan at the card table. |
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| ACT III |
| The Ball |
| There is coming and going through this opening, and also through slits in the canvas. |
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| Ensign Blades appears, frowning, and Charlotte ventures to touch his sleeve. |
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| miss susan |
| They have suspected for a week. |
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| phoebe |
| As soon as you see a lady with a pretty nose you cannot help saying that you adore her. |
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| ACT IV |
| The Blue and White Room |
| valentine |
| I regret that they are out, Patty, but I will await their return. |
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| Miss Henrietta and Miss Fanny, encouraged by his sympathy, draw nearer the door of the interesting bed-chamber. |
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| valentine |
| She will recover. |
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