COMPROMISE
A Folk Play
By Willis Richardson
Characters
Jane Lee, a widow
Alec, her son
Annie, her daughter
Ruth, her younger daughter
Ben Carter, a white neighbor
This room at the home of Jane Lee and her children in a country district of Maryland has at its center a rectangular table, at the right and left of which are chairs. Left side is an open fireplace, above which stands a chair against the wall and a door leading to the kitchen. At the center of the rear wall stands a bench on which is a water bucket and dipper. At the right of the bench a door leads outside. Right side. a door leads to the stairs, and below this door another chair stands against the wall. At first the room is vacant, but presently Jane, a woman of five-and-forty, enters from the kitchen. Taking the bucket, she goes to the outer door and calls her son, Alec.
JANE
[Calling.]
Alec!
ALEC
Ma’am?
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