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The Day After the Fair – Duologue 12+ Yrs
The Day After the Fair – Duologue 12+ Yrs
£4.49
EDITH Harnham, an attractive woman in her thirties with a certain nervous vitality suggesting concealed tension, is not very happy in her marriage to an older man. She has befriended her very pretty, impetuous 18 year old maid, ANNA, almost taking on the role of a mother. ANNA is illiterate and EDITH is writing letters for her to send to Charles, a young man from a class above her whom she met at the Fair. EDITH finds herself growing more and more attracted to him through the letters. They are in the front room of the Harnhams’ house in a West Country cathedral city. Time: late nineteenth century.
EDITH: Oh, if only you’d made more progress, Anna. Even if I’d had to help you with the sentiments, at least you could have written the letters yourself. As it is – (She drops the copy-book onto the desk) – there’s only one thing I can do. ANNA: How do you mean, ma’am? EDITH: He must be told, of course. He must be told everything. ANNA: (Alarmed) No, ma’am. EDITH: (Firmly) He must be told that all this time, I’ve been answering his letters for you. ANNA: But why, ma’am? Why do you have to tell him now? EDITH: Because, once you’re married, he’s bound to find out – sooner or later. Then think of all the miserable recriminations that would begin . . . ANNA: But if you tell him now, ma’am, he might change his mind and not marry me at all.
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