]
But I know your race,
Too well, too well. I know how such dreams end,
You could not claim me in your land, my friend,
For colour prejudice is rampant there.
RALPH (impetuously)
But I will stay for ever here, I swear, -
FLOWER GIRL
Nay, do not swear, you would but break the vow
As many another has. Our tropic sun
Affects men like a fever; when 'tis run,
Then their delusions pass. Oh leave me now;
I hear the whistle of your ship,--adieu!
Alohoa oie--may God be with you.
[Enter ETHEL hurriedly]
Come, Ralph, your mother and your sister wait
Quite frantic at the pier, lest you be late.
They sent me for you.
[Exit RALPH with ETHEL; he looks back and flings GIRL a wreath. GIRL
smiles and sings Hawaiian song, picks up the wreath and drops face in
her hands as Curtain goes down.]
Footnotes:
{1} Written to be read at Luncheon, given by my Publishers to the
London and Provincial Booksellers, April 12, 1910.
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