Here! Yes! On the night of October 25-- [_Their heads together in low-voiced conference with LAWYER. Suddenly the PRISONER slips around the CHEATED ONE--trying now not to be cheated of what is being said--and makes for the door. It opens in his face, and the doorway is blocked by a large and determined woman. PRISONER staggers back to LAWYER’S arms._ PRISONER Oh, _hell_. _I’ll plead guilty._ (CURTAIN) * * * * * BERNICE A PLAY IN THREE ACTS * * * * * First Performed by the Provincetown Players, New York, March 21, 1919. ORIGINAL CAST MR. ALLEN, _Bernice’s Father_ O. K. LIVERIGHT ABBIE SUSAN GLASPELL CRAIG NORRIS, _Bernice’s Husband_ JAMES K. LIGHT LAURA (MRS. KIRBY), _Craig’s Sister_ BLANCHE HAYS MARGARET PIERCE, _Bernice’s Friend_ IDA RAUH BERNICE ACT ONE SCENE: _The living-room of Bernice’s house in the country. You feel yourself in the house of a woman you would like to know, a woman of sure and beautiful instincts, who lives simply. At the spectator’s right, stairs go up from the living room; back of this--right, rear, a door; to the front of the stairs is a narrowed passage as of a hall leading to the kitchen. On the other side of the room, is a tea-table before the fireplace, and before it is a low rounded chair, as if awaiting the one who will come to serve tea. Toward the rear of this left wall is a door. This door is closed. From the back of the room French windows lead directly out of doors. On each side of this door is a window thus opening almost the entire wall to the October woods. There are comfortable seats under the windows, books about. It is late afternoon and the sun glows through the flaming leaves. As the curtain is drawn the FATHER is seen sitting at a long table at the side of the stairway, playing solitaire. At the back of the cards, open books are propped against the wall, and papers on which he has been writing. ABBIE, a middle-aged servant, is attending to the open fire._ FATHER [_Holding up a card he is about to place._] Ten minutes since the train whistled. They’ll be here in five minutes now. ABBIE Yes, sir. FATHER It will be hard for Craig to come in this house, Abbie. ABBIE Oh, yes. FATHER