Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT III. [Sitting-room ut, smersholm. Window and anteroom door d'r-e open. The morning sun is shininy out of doors.] [rebecca West, dressed as in the first act, is watering the flowers and attending to them. Her crochet- work is lying on the arm-chair. Mrs. Helseth is going about dusting the furniture with a feather- broom.] Rebecca (after a short silent-e). It is extraordinary that the Pastor should stay upstairs so long to-day. Mrs. Helseth. Oh, he often does so. But now he will certainly be down soon, I should think. Rebecca. Have you seen anything of him? Mbs. Helseth. When I went upstairs with the coffee he was in his bed-room, dressing. Rebecca. I ask because he did not seem quite well yesterday. Mrs. Helseth. Yes, he looked unwell. And then, I shouldn’t be surprised if something had passed between him and his brother-in-law. Rebecca. And what do you think that may have been ? Mbs. Helseth. That I can’t say. Perhaps it’s this Mortensgard that has set them against one another. Rebecca. That ia possible. Do you know this Peter Mortensgard ? Mbs. Helseth. Ob, no, Miss West. How can you think such a thing ? A man like that! Rebecca. Do you mean because he edits that abominable paper ? Mrs. Helseth. Oh, not only on that account You will no doubt have heard, Miss West, that he had a child by a married woman whose husband had deserted her. Rebecca. I have heard some talk about it. But that was long before I came here. Mbs. Helseth. Oh, bless me, yes. He was quite young at the time. She ought to have had more sense. He wanted to marry her, too, but coj.‘d uot get permission. And then he’s had to suffer bitterly for it. But, my word, since then Mortensgard'a risen mightily. There are many people who seek the man now. Rebecca. The gre…