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Project Gutenberg's Windows (Fifth Series Plays), by John Galsworthy This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Windows (Fifth Series Plays) Author: John Galsworthy Last Updated: February 10, 2009 Release Date: September 26, 2004 [EBook #4766] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WINDOWS (FIFTH SERIES PLAYS) *** Produced by David Widger FIFTH SERIES PLAYS OF GALSWORTHY WINDOWS By John Galsworthy PERSONS OF THE PLAY GEOFFREY MARCH....... Freelance in Literature JOAN MARCH........... His Wife MARY MARCH........... Their Daughter JOHNNY MARCH......... Their Son COOK................. Their Cook MR BLY............... Their Window Cleaner FAITH BLY............ His Daughter BLUNTER.............. A Strange Young Man MR BARNADAS.......... In Plain Clothes The action passes in Geofrey March's House, Highgate-Spring-time. ACT I. Thursday morning. The dining-room-after breakfast. ACT II. Thursday, a fortnight later. The dining-room after lunch. ACT III. The same day. The dining-room-after dinner. ACT I The MARCH'S dining-room opens through French windows on one of those gardens which seem infinite, till they are seen to be coterminous with the side walls of the house, and finite at the far end, because only the thick screen of acacias and sumachs prevents another house from being seen. The French and other windows form practically all the outer wall of that dining-room, and between them and the screen of trees lies the difference between the characters of Mr and Mrs March, with dots and dashes of Mary and Johnny thrown in. For instance, it has been formalised by MRS MARCH but the grass has not been cut by MR MARCH, and daffodils have sprung up there, which MRS MARCH desires for the dining-room, but of which MR MARCH says: "For God's sake, Joan, let them grow." About half therefore are now in a bowl on the breakfast table, and the other half still in the grass, in the compromise essential to lasting domesticity. A hammock under the acacias shows that MARY lies there so
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