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Alice and Will, unhappily married, are guests at the country manor of a mysterious man named Lob. Will was once a great man and promising artist but is now an alcoholic who deeply regrets never having a child. Alice chose to marry Will instead of a wealthy aristocrat. She laments what could have been and resents Will for his unfulfilled potential. Alice has come in looking for her husband. Mr. Purdie, one of the other guests, went to find him and dispatch him to the room. The scene starts at
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DEARTH. I am uncommonly flattered, Alice, to hear that you have sent for me. It quite takes me aback.
ALICE (with cold distaste). It isn't your company I want, Will.
DEARTH. You know. I felt that Purdie must have delivered your message wrongly.
ALICE. I want you to come with us on this mysterious walk and keep an eye on Lob.
DEARTH. On poor little Lob?
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