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Maggie and John have come to the end of their agreement that he will marry her after five years of study and professional advancement. It was an agreement drawn up by Maggie’s father and brothers, in return for financially supporting John through his studies. Now that John has become a Member of Parliament and six years have passed, Maggie questions when they will be married. Yet she also desperately wants John to marry her of his own free will and offers to tear up the agreement if he wants to
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Start: MAGGIE. Have you more speaking to do, John? [He is somehow in high good-humour.]
JOHN. I must run across and address the Cowcaddens Club. [He sprays his throat with a hand-spray.] I wonder if I AM vulgar, Maggie?
MAGGIE. You are not, but I am.
[... …]
End: JOHN. Gentlemen, the future Mrs. John Shand! [Cries of ‘Speech, speech!’] No, no, being a lady she can’t make a speech, but—-
[The heroine of the evening surprises him.]
MAGGIE. I can make a speech, and I will make a speech, and it’s in two words, and they’re these [holding out her arms to enfold all the members of the Cowcaddens Club]—My Constituents!
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