Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-06-24
SCENE I

Mrs. Dlck-Ready, Nora? Oh, yes.
Get up and let me see now YOU look.
Miss D. rises and revolves slowly
Very nice. Very sweet, indeed That
gown suits you admirably
Miss DIN glad you like it; | took
a fancy to the style directly | saw it.
Mrs. Dick-I don't wonder. Your us
ual taste and your usual good luck; I'm
quite Jealous. Looks at herself com
placenLly)
Miss D.-You needn't be. Your
gown is perfection, and, yellow is al
ways your color
Mrs. Dick-Well l shall feel proud OF
chaperoning so dainty a maiden. (Sees
hoWers.) Nora, you've got some
flowers. | thought you didn't care for
any. Where have they come from?
Miss D. (begins irawing on her
gloyes)-Whom have they come from
l don't know; there isn't a card. It's
most mysterious.
Mis-. Dick Shaking the box)-And
you have not the least idea? How
very funny. They are lovely flowers.
Nora, and all white, too. (Hums waltz
very softly; then, as Miss D. says moth
ing, stops abruptly Nora, l do be-
heye you're excited.
Miss d. with a great appearance Of
MANIFESTATION awfully clever of YOU
to find out! I'm horribly nervous:
jest as | used to be my first season.
Mrs. Dick (briskly seating herself op-
posite Miss D.)-Oh, nonsense! But
what is it all about?
Miss D. Slowly and confdentially)-
Well-the fact is-Tm afraid that
shall have no one to take me down to
supper.
Mrs. Dick-Of course you don't ex-
pect me to believe that. At any rate.
MIR. Lea would come to the rescue.
Miss D.-I quite forgot him. He al
ways goes, doesn't he?
Mrs Dick-AlWays. | wonder if shat
nice young Lyster will be there?
Didn't he say something about running
up to town for a day or two?
Miss D.-That was last week. /
should think he will be back now. He
would never miss the Hunt bal, would
he?-unlesS he hates dancing
Mrs. DiCk-Oh, my dear-it isn't all
dancing. He would be missed
wouldn't he? What would Maude
Evans say?
Miss D.-Less than the town g0ssips,
I'm quite sure.
Mrs. Dick-She gets the credit, any
way. And every one says he's paid her
so much attention there must be some
thing in it. And if there isn't, There
ought to be!
Miss DIE hasn't really shown her
more attention than lots of girls,
Mrs. Dick-Oh, | don't know! He
goes about all over with her Why,
only yesterday Miss I-afitte told me
they were behind the screen at the par
ish bazaar for ever so long. l wonder
Mrs. Evans allows it.
Miss D.-I shouldn't mind what Miss
Laftte says. She's always prying
about where she isn't wanted
Mrs. Dick-Weu, l should think
Maudes people would be very glad if
there were something in it. This must
he her fourth season-tno, her fifth; she
came out so young.
Miss Dishes just a year younger
than | am.
Mrs. Dick-And very pretty, too; it is
a wonder she hasn't married.
Miss D.-Wait till Mr.. POwCrsc0urt
comes home!
Miss Dick-I don't think he would
have much of chance if Mr.. Lyster
were in the question. Mrs. Viccars
was saying only this afternoon that he
has five thousand a year.
Miss d. drawing on glove No. 2)-
How nice!
Mrs Dick-And she told me that he
has a lovely place in Yorkshire, aud
that he is an only son. and his eldest
sister is Lady Sinclair Mrs. ViccaIS
cousin knows the family very well; she
says his mother is the dearest Old lady
in the world
Miss d. (still busy with glOve)-How
very nice!
Mrs. Dick (contemplates Miss D. pen
siyely)-I always thought he admired
you a good deal, Nora; you seem to get
Cn so we'll together, and to have plenty
of things in common, don't you?
Miss Doh, we're very good friends
Iild uS ue'iiCSo pei lCCIly. AhlthIiuG Nv GUNS
says she likes his Waiting almost as
we'll as Mr.. PoweIscourts.
Mrs. Dick-Then she really is en-
gagged to Mr.. Powerscourt? Well, I'm
sure she would never have suited Mr..
Lyster Are you ready to go down?
Oh, and what are you going to do about
those flowers?
Miss d. Intentionally irrelevant
Some peoples i'd Ills run so smoothly.
Yours and Dicks did-Maude's and Mr..
Powerscourt's- anything but--
Mrs. Dick-And yours?
Miss D. Fastening last button)-
Mine? Oh l haven't one. I don't
know about the flowers. Oracle; what
would you do?
Mrs. Dick turns to toilet table,
They are very pretty; it seems a pity
to leave them. Carry them as a bou-
quet.
Miss D.-I hate bouquets. And it
isn't as if l knew who sent them.
Mrs. Dick-That need not trouble
you; you can make very good guess.
CA pause; Mrs. Dick examines flowers
once more)
Miss d. think I shall not take
them, Glacie.
Mrs Dick-Do as you like, dear; I
don't suppose it matters much. And
you ought to know your own affairs
best, oughtn't you?
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