2 hours

A young lady, gloved and hatted, with a coat on, is sitting in the window-seat.A clock strikes six. The young lady turns and looks at her watch. She rises with an air of one who waits, and is almost at the end of her patience.With a sigh of weary resignation she sits down; and begins to read. Presently the book sinks to herlap; her eyes close; and she dozes into a slumber.An elderly womanservant comes in from the hall and disappears in the pantry without noticing theyoung lady. As she returns the young lady lets her book drop, awakening herself, and startling thewomanservant.

The young lady picks up the book and places it on thetable

looking in from the hall suddenly: an ancient but still hardy man

advancing to the drawing-table

To the young ladyshe goes to the door leading to the hall

as she passes him

Quite unconcerned, she goes out into the hall on herway to the kitchen

He sits down in the big wicker chair

Adapted from George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House,http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3543/3543-h/3543-h.htm .

George gets up and goes across to the desk. He sits, picks up the phone and dials just one number.

Lois enters George’s office.

Hands her bank cards.

HissHe picks up the phone.

PauseHe hangs up after another pause.

He touches her.

She cries.

Crying

He walks away from her and sits on the sofa.

Adapted from Trevor Rhone, Old Story Time. Pearson, 2010, pp. 64–68.

He picks up thephone”, “Pause”“He hangs up after another pause”

Cecil Gray, “Beach”. In Careenage pp. 15–16, LilibelPublications, Toronto, 2003.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay “An Ancient Gesture”.Retrieved from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/an-ancient-gesture .

Adapted from Edwidge Danticat, “Nineteen Thirty-Seven”. In The Oxford Book ofCaribbean Short Stories, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 447–455.

Adapted from Su Tong, Raise the Red Lantern, Perennial Edition, 2004, pp. 11 14.