Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCENE II textit{rHERE is a moment of pitch-blackness. Then waves of darkness, as it were, are sensed to drive across the stage. From darkness the waves change to thick gray, to thin silver, through which indistinct shapes become visible, and the twinkle of lights. The mists clear. The interior of a cottage is revealed. The walls are sheathed in dark wood. There is no ceiling. In the rear wall, to the right, is a row of casement windows, through which can be seen, in far distance, a sky of palest sunset gold, which darkens, as the scene progresses, and is strewn with stars. Outside the windows are vines in flower. To the left of the windows is a wide Dutch door, with the upper half flung back. Through the door can be seen a wall of plum-colored brick, half masked with flowering vines and fruit trees in blossom. In the wall at the left is another row of casement windows. In the wall at the right is a great fireplace, where a glowing wood-fire burns low. At right angles to the hearth is a low-backed settle. There are benches beneath the casements, a dark chest against the wall at right front, a table with two textit{chairs at the center. Against the wall left back a narrow dark dresser bears some pewter cups and flagons. On the window ledges are flowering plants. On the table a low dish of spring flowers. On the chimney'piece, textit{the table, and the window-ledge at the left are lighted candles in metal candlesticks. The time is early evening. The room throughout is indistinct with shadows. textit{On the settle, in the fire-glow, The Old WOMAN textit{sits knitting something white. On the floor at her feet The Little Boy textit{plays with blocks. On the chest at the right, lighted by the single candle on the chimneypiece above, The Master Of The House textit{sits whittling ...