[_Tom returns, followed by two girls bringing armfuls of flowers. With these they deck the room, and keep the choicest blooms for Mary. Ann and the three girls are busied with making Mary reach her most beautiful. Mrs. Airey goes. At intervals one villager and another comes to give greeting or to bring some small offering of food or some small article of clothing. Mary thanks them all with rare natural grace. They call her fine, and ejaculate remarks of admiration: "The purty bride...." "She's beautiful...." "'Tis a lucky lad, Bill Airey...." The church bell begins to ring.... All is prepared and all are ready.... Mary is given her gloves, which she draws on--when the door is thrown open and Bill Airey lunges against the lintel of the door and stands leering. He is just sober enough to know what he is at. He is near tears, poor wretch. He is not horribly drunk. He stands surveying the group and they him._] BILL. I come--I come--I--c-come for to--to--to--show--to show myself.... [_He turns in utter misery and goes. Mary plucks the flowers from her bosom and lets them fall to the ground; draws her gloves off her hands and lets them fall. The bell continues to ring._] [_Curtain._] THE BABY CARRIAGE A PLAY BY BOSWORTH CROCKER Copyright, 1920, by Bosworth Crocker. All rights reserved. THE BABY CARRIAGE was originally produced by the Provincetown Players, New York, February 14, 1919, with the following cast: MRS. LEZINSKY _Dorothy Miller._ MRS. ROONEY _Alice Dostetter._ MR. ROSENBLOOM _W. Clay Hill._ SOLOMON LEZINSKY _O. K. Liveright._ PLACE: _The Lezinsky Tailor Shop_. TIME: _To-day_. Application for the right of performing THE BABY CARRIAGE must be made to Mr. Bosworth Crocker, in care of the Society of American Dramatists and Composers, 148 West 45th Street, New York, or The Authors' League, Union Square, New York. THE BABY CARRIAGE A PLAY BY BOSWORTH CROCKER [_THE SCENE is an ordinary tailor shop two steps down from the sidewalk. Mirror on one side. Equipment third rate. Mrs. Solomon Lezinsky, alone in the shop, is examining a torn pair of trousers as Mrs. Rooney comes in._] MRS. LEZINSKY [_27 years old, medium height and weight, dark, attractive. In a pleased voice with a slight Yiddish accent_]. Mrs. Rooney! MRS. ROONEY [_30 years old. A plump and pretty Irish woman_]. I only ran in for a minute to bring you these. [_Holds up a pair of roller skates and a picture book._] Eileen's out there in the carriage. [_Both women look out at the baby-carriage in front of the window._] MRS. LEZINSKY. Bring her in, Mrs. Rooney. Such a beautiful child--your Eileen! MRS. ROONEY. Can't stop--where's the kids? MRS. LEZINSKY. The janitress takes them to the moving pictures with her Izzy.