AUNT. You are quite right, Horace. We do fall far short of our whole duty. But where are you going to sleep? Will you go to a hotel? HORACE. Perhaps, or in the chair. Don’t bother about me. AUNT. Kiss me, Horace. Heaven bless you. You have made me very happy to-night. (_Exit._) HORACE. The sofa gone. I see nothing for it but to camp on the hearthrug or in the chair. Don’t want that any more. (_Turns out lamp._) I wish I could have made my peace with Minnie. But she hasn’t forgotten so readily. She shrank away from me when I caught her. I must just hope for the best. (_Settles down in chair._) (_Enter MINNIE R._) MINNIE. Light out—then I am too late. He has gone to some hotel. I wonder how the fire is doing? (_Goes to window and pulls curtains away, when the morning light falls upon her. HORACE, aroused, sees her._) HORACE. I might be dreaming again. Ah, I can read it now! She is my guide—my Marsy—my conscience! Minnie!! MINNIE. (_Startled_) Horace? HORACE. Forgive me, Minnie! I was a brute to you. MINNIE. I wronged you, Horace. I know I did. HORACE. Never! Never! It was your spirit that changed me, and my purpose in life. Help me to continue. MINNIE. What can I do? HORACE. (_Picks up ring from table_) Let me put it back on its finger. (_Sounds of scraping of shovel outside._) MINNIE. (_Goes to window and looks out_) It is that poor inventor man shoveling the snow. HORACE. There is good in him, and we will bring it out. MINNIE. And shall we help him to find his Minnie, now that you have found yours? HORACE. That we will, dearest. (_Puts on ring._) There it is again, my love, my Minnie! (_TRAMP comes into view through window shoveling the snow cheerily._) CURTAIN FRENCH’S Standard Library Edition Includes Plays by Clyde Fitch Booth Tarkington William Gillette J. Hartley Manners Augustus Thomas James Forbes George Broadhurst James Montgomery Edward E. Kidder Wm. C. de Mille Percy Mac Kaye Roi Cooper Megrue Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Edward E. Rose Louis N. Parker Israel Zangwill R. C. Carton Henry Bernstein Alfred Sutro Harold Brighouse Richard Harding Davis Channing Pollock Sir Arthur W. Pinero Harry Durant Anthony Hope Winchell Smith Oscar Wilde Margaret Mayo Haddon Chambers A. E. W. Mason Jerome K. Jerome Charles Klein Cosmo Gordon Lennox Henry Arthur Jones H. V. Esmond A. E. Thomas Mark Swan Fred Ballard Grace L. Furniss Cyril Harcourt Marguerite Merrington Carlisle Moore Hermann Sudermann Ernest Denny Rida Johnson Young Laurence Housman Arthur Law Harry James Smith Rachel Crothers Edgar Selwyn Martha Morton Augustin McHugh H. A. Du Souchet Robert Housum W. W. Jacobs Charles Kenyon Madeleine Lucette Ryley C. M. S. McLellan