The Skin Game

Excerpt from The Skin Game: A Tragi-Comedy

Hillcrist's study. A pleasant room, with books in calf bindings, and signs that the Hillcrists have travelled, such as a large photograph of the Taj Mahal, of Table Mountain, and the Pyramids of Egypt. A large bureau stage Right], devoted to the business of a country estate. Two foxes' masks. Flowers in bowls. Deep armchairs. A large French window open at Back], with a lovely view of a slight rise of fields and trees in August sunlight. A fine stone fireplace stage Left], A door Left], A door opposite Right]. General colour effect - stone, and cigar-leaf brown, with spots of bright colour.

Hillcrist sits in a swivel chair at the bureau, busy with papers. He has gout, and his left foot is encased accordingly. He is a thin, dried-up man of about fifty-five, with a rather refined, rather kindly, and rather cranky countenance. Close to him stands his very upstanding nineteen-year-old daughter Jill, with clubbed hair round a pretty, manly face.]

Jill. You know, Dodo, it's all pretty good rot in these days.

Hillcrist. Cads are cads, Jill, even in these days.

Jill. What is a cad?

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