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John Glassman is a landowner and a neighbor of the Cavendish family. He is a bachelor at 35 and has decided to propose to Natalie Cavendish, who is in her mid-twenties and also still unmarried. John is a hypochondriac and gets overwhelmed in moments of stress. Nervously, he begins to outline his reasons behind the proposal but, before he can finish, he and Natalie get into a heated debate about the ownership of a strip of land between their properties.
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NATALIE Oh, it's you!
GLASSMAN How do you do, Natalie?
NATALIE You must excuse my apron -- I was shelling peas. Why haven't you been here for such a long time? Sit down. Won't you have some lunch?
GLASSMAN No, thank you, I've eaten already.
NATALIE A smoke then?
(she offers Glassman a box of cigars)
The weather is splendid now, but yesterday it was so wet
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