Name: Graft A Comedy in Four Acts
Author: Harold Brighouse
ISBN: 978-1362664253)

Graft A Comedy in Four Acts

By Harold Brighouse 26 May, 2021

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Excerpt from Graft: A Comedy in Four Acts
A small room on the first floor, awkwardly overcrowded with the entire furniture of a cottage, a pile of which is staked in the left corner and covered with a sheet; the plain iron bed is right, the window coming between its foot and the pile of the furniture; table centre; three plain upright chairs and one wicker armchair before the fire; fireplace left; opposite it right a kitchen dresser well stocked with crockery; pans and kettle about the fireplace. For all the uncomfortable crowding the room is bright and well kept. Door right. It is 7 p.m. on a September evening, and the approach of dusk is noticed gradually.
Jim Pilling, a gardener, has finished tea and sits in his shirt-sleeves before the debris of the meal facing spectator lighting a briar pipe. Jim is thirty, clean looking, dressed in his rough working clothes without coat or his combined collar and "dicky" and red tie, which hangs with the coat behind the door. Sally Pilling is transferring the last of the table utensils to a tray which she puts on the bed; then removing the white cloth and shaking crumbs into the fire; a red cloth is underneath. Sally is of the pale complexion usual to a country girl living in a town; she dresses neatly and has an apron on; Dick, a thin boy of eight, in a blue sailor suit, gets off his chair at the table.

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