Steve, do you hear that! Will you get the paper or shall I
call to the man?
STEVEN. I'll get it. [_Goes to a window and opens it, pulling aside the
curtain. He calls down to the boy in the street._] Here! Hi! Extra!
[_Voice outside, "Here you are, boss!"_
STEVEN. Ring the bell.
[_He comes back into the room. One "Extra" is heard louder than before,
and then the cries gradually die away._
MRS. CARLEY. The carriage has already been here nearly an hour.
GEORGIANA. It if should be Dick's fight, if it should be Dick's
regiment!
LOUISE. Make up your mind, mother, to be a little late. We can't go till
we see the paper.
GEORGIANA. [_At the door Right._] Lizzie! Where is she? Didn't he go to
the door with the paper, Steve?
BELLA. I'll see, miss.
[_She goes out Right._
STEVEN. Yes. I saw him. But, Georgy, it won't be Dick's regiment.
MRS. CARLEY. [_By the sofa._] Louise, I'll tell you what we'll do, let's
go down and be getting on our wraps.
LOUISE. No, mother, wait.
GEORGIANA. No, Louise, go down, please, with mother. I'd rather.
MRS. CARLEY. [_Going out Left._] Yes, come along.
[LOUISE _looks at_ GEORGIANA, _who nods her head "Yes" to go.
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