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398 APPENDIX 8CEDE is - Interior of a Shop -(Sam* as So.iH)-! Aotlon - - - • Viola la waiting for har mother'* raturn* Sha It beoomlng reitlsea, and, after a momant, ah* aaia the thop-aialataiit the time. The aaalatant looks at bar wrlst-watoh and names th* hour. Vi ola deoldea not to wait any longer, and ^oes. SCENE 69 - Sitting-room In Wait*'* Flat -(Same as So.50)- Aotion • • - - lira. Waite Is alttlng by the tahl* with tb* paste pandant before her. She Is looking at it with mingled emotiona* There Is something of her iirst irresponsible mania to possess, but mingled with this Is an expression that shows that she begin* to realize what she has don*.>>« Finallr *h* oovsrs the pendant with her hands, and, with a faoe that shows oomplets wretohed- ness, lean* forward over the table, resting her head on her arras. The door opens and »aite enters hurriedly, without stopping to remove his hat. Be advanoes toward Urs. laite and says stinrply: ■Elizabeth t ' lira, .falte slowly raises her head end looks at hlo mieorably. "there's the pendantt" he demands. She still looks at him as if silently imploring bis pity for her fault, and slowly removes her hands and unoovers the glittering pasta ornaiuant on the table. Waite snatohes up the pendant and upbraids his wife, holding the pendant before her eyes as damning •vldano* of her guilt. "You wo jld ruin me J • he ories. "This cannot and must not go on 1 ° and so on and so forth, empbasitlBg eaoh statement with a little shsk© of the pendant. Presently his ayee rest on the pendant for - moment, and suddenly bis look becomes fized—He stares. With a quiok movement he brings the psnaant nearer to hia eyes. With another quiok movement h* turns towards the light. Hi3 ezpressicu shows that he reoog- nlses that the pendant la paste. "Good Ood t" he whispers. And again ha turnj to his wife fierosly. "Where did you get thlaj" She tndioetes falteringly (caoi* terrified by his new mftnner) that she took it from a ohair in bis nffioe. He aee* tba: she Is speaking the truth. Ignoring her, h* stands, trying to puzzle the matter out. Then a gliorierlng of the truth oooas to him: "Uannlng 1 " he whispers. He oonslders a moment longer, and then, without another word to his wife, be hurries out. SCENE 70 - Smith's Offloe the "buoket shop" -(Same as So.52)- Aotlon - • - - anith is at his de k. ilanning enter* and pay* Cmitb th* overdraft on hli (Uanniug'a) aooount. Uannlng Is again oonfldent and shrewd. Be feels that be 1* In a lafa position, for, even if Waite dlsoovers the subatitutioo K^'y Compare the brevity of scene sixty-eight with the care "■^ with which the succeeding and more important scene is written. Not mere fullness of description but fullness of description where required is the essence of the Merwin script. In long scenes it is not always possible to avoid turns to the following page.