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THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY
THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
THE FIRST ACT
MRS. EMPTAGE.
Tell me the time once more, 'Tina.
JUSTINA.
A few minutes to four, mother.
MRS. EMPTAGE.
Does the judge of the Divorce Court invariably rise at four o'clock?
JUSTINA.
He may sit a little later under special circumstances.
MRS. EMPTAGE.
To have done with a case if it's very near its end?
JUSTINA.
So I'm told.
MRS. EMPTAGE.
They must all be here soon, whether that happens or not.
JUSTINA.
Yes, yes. Oh, but if the confounded thing should last into another day!
MRS. EMPTAGE.
A third day's suspense will kill me.
JUSTINA.
Ma, I suppose, really, we ought to be reading our Church Services or something.
MRS. EMPTAGE.
I can't concentrate my attention in the least; I have been glancing at "The Yellow Book."
JUSTINA.
Hark! what's that?
MRS. EMPTAGE.
I don't hear anything.
JUSTINA.
Kitty!
MRS. QUINTON TWELVES.
Well, well, well, well!
JUSTINA.
Is it over?
MRS. QUINTON TWELVES.
Not quite; that is, it wasn't when I came away. It's all over by now, I expect.
MRS. EMPTAGE.
MRS. QUINTON TWELVES.
Sssh, sssh! everything has gone swimmingly, I tell you.
JUSTINA.
For Theophila?
MRS. QUINTON TWELVES.
Of course, for Theophila.
MRS. EMPTAGE.
I felt sure it would.
JUSTINA.
But what was happening when you left?
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