He is.
HETTY [towering over HARRIET]. He isn't! I'll kill you!
HARRIET [overpowered, sinks into a chair]. Don't -- don't --
you're stronger than I -- you're ----
HETTY. Say he's mine.
HARRIET. He's ours.
HETTY [the telephone rings]. There she is now.
[HETTY hurries to 'phone but HARRIET regains her supremacy.]
HARRIET [authoritatively]. Wait! I can't let the telephone girl
down there hear my real self. It isn't proper. [At 'phone.] Show
Mrs. Caldwell up.
HETTY. I'm so excited, my heart's in my mouth.
HARRIET [at the mirror]. A nice state you've put my nerves into.
HETTY. Don't let her see you're nervous.
HARRIET. *Quick, put the veil on, or she'll see you shining
through me. [HARRIET takes a scarf of chiffon that has been lying
over the back of a chair and drapes it on HETTY, covering her
face. The chiffon is the same color of their gowns but paler in
shade so that it pales HETTY'S darker gown to match HARRIET'S
lighter one. As HETTY moves in the following scene the chiffon
falls away revealing now and then the gown of deeper dye
underneath.]
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* (The vaudeville production did not use Harriet's line about the
veil because at the rise of the curtain Hetty is already veiled
in chiffon the same dark green shade as her gown.
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