never been behind bars in her life and she wasn’t going to begin at her age, and she was quite capable of dealing with anyone who came to the kitchen door – WESTON: Tell her to pack her things and leave the house at once. LADY WESTON: And who will cook your pet dishes? I shall also see that all the downstairs windows are shuttered as you suggest. We can always haul the groceries through an upper window.
WESTON ( controlling himself ): I think that so frivolous a suggestion at so anxious a time is in poor taste, Frances, and unworthy of you – LADY WESTON: Did it appear frivolous to you? How strange! I had thought it odd to shutter the walls and yet leave openings in the roof that one could drive a coach and horses through. However!
( She comes back into the room, takes two candelabra from different places in the room, and goes to the door ). WESTON: What do you want with these? LADY WESTON: If we are to be in darkness below we shall want all the candles we can gather. ( Exit. ) WESTON: The aptness of the female mind to busy itself about irrelevant and inconsiderable minutiae is a source of endless wonder to me.
( Almost without noticing what he is doing he moves over to the fireplace and sticks his head into the chimney to view the width of it. As he withdraws it, he becomes aware of ROGER, standing watching). I see no reason now why you should not resume your work, Roger. ROGER: Oh, my lord, it is beyond my power to work while you are in danger.
Is there not something I could do? 12th - - Remember Caesar Page WESTON ( mightily flattered ): Nonsense, my good Roger, nonsense! Nothing is going to happen to me. ROGER: I could perhaps go and warn the authorities, and so prevent – WESTON ( very brave ): No, no, no.
Am I to spend the rest of my life with a guard at my