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Margaret has just arrived at Harriet’s formal sitting room for tea. Both women have primitive selves shadowing them: Hetty voices Harriet’s bitterness at losing her first love John to Margaret; Maggie voices Margaret’s hunger and desperate poverty. Both women have ulterior motives for meeting with each other, and hide their true feelings and intentions which are voiced by the primitive selves. Hetty speaks to Harriet and Maggie, while Maggie speaks to Margaret and Hetty.
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HARRIET: Oh, Margaret, I'm so glad to see you!
HETTY: [to MAGGIE] That's a lie.
MARGARET: [in superficial voice throughout] It's enchanting to see you, Harriet.
MAGGIE: [in emotional voice throughout] I'd bite you, if I dared.
HARRIET: [to MARGARET] Wasn't our meeting a stroke of luck?
MARGARET: [coming down left of table] I've thought of you so
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