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CRAIG’S WIFE
- —that you don’t understand. If you did it would be scarcely necessary to warn you.
Craig
- Of what?
- [There is a pause; and Miss Austen looks right into his eyes.
Miss Austen
- Your wife.
- [Mrs. Craig breaks into a mirthless laugh, at the absurdity of Miss Austen’s implication. Craig turns and looks at her.
Craig
- What are you laughing at, Harriet?
Mrs. Craig
- Why, don’t you think that’s very amusing?
Craig
- I don’t know that I think it’s so very amusing.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, wait till you’ve heard the rest of it; you’ll probably change your mind.
Miss Austen (looking steadily at Mrs. Craig)
- Harriet isn’t really laughing, Walter.
Mrs. Craig
- What em I doing, crying?
Miss Austen
- You are whistling in the dark.
Mrs. Craig (vastly amused, and rising)
- Oh, dear!
- [She touches her hair before the mirror.
Miss Austen
- You’re terrified that your secret has been discovered.
- [Mrs. Craig turns sharply and faces her.
