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Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 2
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
The drawing room of an English country house, 1930s
Act/Scene
Act Three

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START: Olwen (distressed). Robert, please don’t drink any more to- night. I know how you feel, but it’ll only make you worse — really, it will.

Robert. What does it matter ? I’m through, anyway.

Olwen. Robert, I can’t bear seeing you like this. You don’t know how it hurts me.

Robert. I’m sorry, Olwen, I really am sorry. You’re the only one who’s really come out of this. I know that. Strange, isn’t it — that you should have been feeling like that about me all the time?

[... …]

END: Olwen (half screaming). No, Robert, no. This is horrible, mad. Please, please don’t go on. (Quieter.) It won’t seem like this to- morrow.

Robert ( crazy now). To-morrow. To-morrow. I tell you. I’m through. I’m through. There can’t be a to-morrow.

(He turns and rushes out.)

Freda ( screaming , moving down to Olwen and gripping her arm). He’s got a revolver in his bedroom.

Olwen (screaming and runnig to the door). Stop, Robert! Stop! Stop!

J.B. Priestley. Dangerous Corner. Samuel French (acting edition), pp.56-59.

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