"_
MRS. HUNTER. I'm perfectly sure if I'd stuck to three hundred, Julia
Godesby would have sent around when she got home and paid it!
CLARA. I'm glad you didn't run the risk though, for we'll need every
cent we can get now.
[_She runs her fingers rapidly over the piano keys._
[BLANCHE _reenters Right._
MRS. HUNTER. Why, I thought you'd gone long ago.
BLANCHE. Jess begged me to stay with her. Try to understand her, mother;
I think she will miss father more than any of us.
[JORDAN _enters Left._
JORDAN. Mr. Warden has come back, madam.
[WARDEN _enters Left._
WARDEN. Forgive my intruding so soon again, but did Mr. Mason leave a
letter case of Mr. Hunter's here?
[BLANCHE _begins looking for the case._
MRS. HUNTER. I haven't seen it; I'll ask the servants to look. Excuse
me, I'm quite tired out; we've been receiving a long visit of
condolence.
[_She goes out, Right, with_ CLARA, _who links her arm in her mother's._
BLANCHE. [_Finding the case, which has fallen beneath the table._] Here
it is. Dear old pocket-book--
[_Her voice breaks on the last word, and turning her face away to hide
her tears, she hands him the well-worn letter case._
WARDEN. Mrs. Sterling, I'm glad they left us alone, because Mr.
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