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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 2
  • Male: 0
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Time/Place
The Lancasters' country house, England, 1924
Act/Scene
Act 3

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START: Helen: Florence, what is the use of going on like that?
Florence: I wish I were dead!
Helen : It’s so cowardly to give way utterly — as you’re doing.
Florence: I don’t care — I don’t care!
[...]
END: Helen : A little while ago you were really suffering for once, and in a way I was glad because it showed you were capable of a genuine emotion. Now you’re glossing it over — smarming it down with your returning vanity, soon you won’t be unhappy any more — just vindictive.
Florence: Don’t go on at me like that — I’m too wretched.
Helen {going to her): Florence dear, forgive me, but it’s true — and I don’t want it to be

Noel Coward. The Vortex. Ernest Benn Ltd, 1924. pp.87-92

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