GERALD. I should enjoy it.... I mean I shan't mind very much. Let us therefore start. If we're too soon you can watch the process at work on others, and learn how to comport yourselves. By the way, honeymoon? JAMES. Paris. Charing Cross 1:30. Dine at Dover. GERALD. Then you shall eat that lunch I have ordered at the Savoy. ROSAMUND. Er--talking of lunch, as I'm hostess here, perhaps I should ask you men if you'd like a drink. JAMES AND GERALD [_looking hopefully at each other_]. Well, yes. ROSAMUND. I have some beautiful lemonade. JAMES AND GERALD [_still looking at each other, but with a different expression_]. Oh, that will be delightful! [_Lemonade and glasses produced._] GERALD. I drink to the happy pair. ROSAMUND [_a little sinister_]. And I--to Madge. JAMES. And I--to a good woman--Mrs. Pet [_looking at her fixedly_]. All men like a good woman, but she shouldn't be too good--it's a strain on the system. [_General consumption of lemonade, the men bravely swallowing it down, Rosamund rests her head on James's shoulder._] ROSAMUND. It occurs to me, Gerald, you only ordered lunch for two at the Savoy. GERALD. Well, that's right. By that time you and James, if I may call him so, will be one, and me makes two. [_Curtain._] THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE A PLAY BY GEORGE CALDERON Copyright, 1913, by Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. All rights reserved. THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE is founded on a story by the same author, published anonymously some years ago in _Temple Bar_. The agents for amateur rights in this play are Messrs. Samuel French, 28 West 38th Street, New York, and Joseph Williams, Ltd., 32 Great Portland Street, London, from whom a license to play it in public must be obtained. It was first performed for the Stage Society at the Aldwych Theatre, London, January 29, 1911, with the following cast: PRASKÓVYA, _a lodging-house keeper_ _Mrs. Saba Raleigh_ VARVÁRA, _her servant_ _Miss Eily Malyon_ ASTÉRYI, _a lodger_ _Mr. Franklin Dyall_ FOMÁ, _a lodger_ _Mr. Stephen T. Ewart_ SPIRIDÓN, _a stonemason_ _Mr. Leon M. Lion_ A STRANGER _Mr. O. P. Heggie_ A CORPORAL _Mr. E. Cresfan_ Produced by MR. KENELM FOSS. SCENE: _Small provincial town in Russia._ Reprinted by permission of, and special arrangement with, Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson, Ltd., publishers of the English edition. THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE A PLAY BY GEORGE CALDERON