The Old Lady

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Excerpt from The Old Lady: A Comedy in One Act The scene is laid in the sitting-room at Fitzpatrick's lodgings. There is a door at the back, a window on the right and a fire-place on the left in which a fire is burning. Renfield is seated in an armchair in front of the fire, reading the morning paper. Fitzpatrick is at the table in the middle of the room opening and reading letters. He opens the last one and as he reads it his face expresses surprise and disgust. He brushes the hair back from his forehead nervously. Fitzpatrick. Good Lord! I'm in for it now! Renfield (looking up from the paper). In for what? Fitzpatrick. This letter is from Lola Fulton. Renfield. Advising, I presume, you to be a good little boy and not to worry her. Fitzpatrick. No: it's a thousand times worse than that. Renfield (with mock tragedy). Don't tell me that she's going to have you. Fitzpatrick (gloomily). I'm going to be had by her, sure enough. She says that if I don't marry her, she won't take less than a thousand to keep the matter out of court. 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.