Just to Get Married

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Excerpt from Just to Get Married: A Comedy in Three Acts Scene. - Drawing-room at Sir Theodore Grayle's country house. A plan of the scene is given at the end of the play. Time. - It is after dinner. (As the curtain rises Frances Melliship is sitting turning over an illustrated paper. Mrs. Macartney is at the piano - she rattles off the closing bars of a noisy tune, finishing with a bang.) Frances. Thank you, Mrs. Macartney. (Sitting on the sofa R.) Mrs. Macartney. Very charming of you to thank me. My performance seems to have driven everybody else out of the room. What has become of them? Frances. Lady Catherine has gone to the library to write letters - and Georgiana wandered off into the conservatory a few minutes ago. Mrs. Macartney. With Mr. Lankester? Frances. Oh, no. He is still in the dining-room. Mrs. Macartney. I wonder - does she ever talk to you, Miss Melliship? Frances. Talk to me? Mrs. Macartney. I mean about Mr. Lankester? Frances. No. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.