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The Coming of Annabel 
 
 A Comedy in One Act 
 
 By 
 ALICE C. THOMPSON 
 
 Author of " The Wrong Miss Mather^* 
 '■^■The Scarlet Bonnet," etc. 
 
 BOSTON 
 
 WALTER H. BAKER & CO. 
 1912 
 
The Coming of Annabel 
 
 CHARACTERS 
 
 Mrs. Mary Wright. 
 Miss Lucinda Love. 
 Miss Tabitha Touchett. 
 Miss Jane Winter. 
 Mrs. Beulah Black. 
 Miss Annabel Garland. 
 
 SCENE. — Mrs. Wright's sitting-room. 
 
 Copyr:b«t, 1 9 1 2, by Walter H. Baker & Co. 
 
 T-MP96-0068ii 
 g)CI.D 3HJ95 
 
PROPERTIES 
 
 A white curtain, sewing materials, a pink parasol, small leather 
 traveling bag, a pack of cards. 
 
 COSTUMES 
 
 The first four characters wear rather old-fashioned, country 
 clothes. Miss Tabitha Touchett and Miss Jane Winter 
 eccentric. Miss Lucinda Love rather juvenile. Mrs. Black, 
 very stylish mourning. Annabel, a simple well-made hnen suit, 
 and pretty flower trimmed hat. 
 
The Coming of Annabel 
 
 SCENE. — A simply furnished room. Braided rugs on floor. 
 Two old-fashioned rockers, one R. c. , one at L. c. A small 
 table, a sofa, and straight-backed chair. Entrance at c. 
 
 (At rise Mrs. Mary Wright is discovered r. c. sewing on 
 a curtain. She is a pleasant-looking ^voman, slightly 
 under middle age. A knock c.) 
 
 Mrs. W. Come in. 
 
 Enter Miss Jane Winter. She is a stern-looking woman 
 with hair beginning to turn gray. 
 
 Jane. How do you do, Mary ? Am I the first ? 
 
 Mrs. W. (rising). The first ? 
 
 Jane. The first to come, of course. I hope you haven't 
 forgotten that we're holding a meeting here — an indignant 
 meeting, they call it. Good name, for we're all mad, I can 
 tell you. 
 
 Mrs. W. Of course (dubiously), about 
 
 Jane (snappily). About Beulah Black. It's got to be 
 stopped, Mary. 
 
 Mrs. W. Oh, yes. But it's a pity. I got a message just 
 half an hour ago to say that my niece, Annabel Garland, is 
 coming to-day, and I'm rushing to get her room ready. That's 
 why the meeting kind of went out of my head for a while. Sit 
 down, Jane. 
 
 (They sit r. c, Mrs. W. taking up her seiving again.) 
 
 Jane. I should think your niece could have put off her 
 coming for a day. 
 
 Mrs. W. Oh, I've been expecting her a long time and this 
 is the only day that would fit in, I guess. She's an only child, 
 and it's hard to spare her. I must get these curtains hemmed 
 and up. I want her room to look pretty. 
 
 5 
 
O THE COMING OF ANNABEL 
 
 Jane. Well, you'll have to put them away when the other 
 two come. You wait till you see Tabitha Touchettv v§he, 
 won't waste any time coming to the point, I can tell you. (A 
 knock Q..') I'll open the door, {Goes up o,.) Here she is. 
 
 Enter Miss Tabitha Touchett. She is a thin woman with 
 a very severe expression ; speaks quickly and decidedly. 
 
 Tab. Good-day, Mary. (Mrs. W. hastily goes to table 
 and puts curtain down.) Good-day, Jane. {Nods.) I'm 
 glad you're here. Lucindy's late, as usual. 
 
 Mrs. W. Please sit down, Tabitha. 
 
 {Brings her a chair ; all sit.) 
 
 Tab. I hope this disgraceful affair will be thoroughly 
 threshed out to-day. 
 
 Jane. That's what we're here for. 
 
 Tab. If Mrs. Black is determined to go on the wrong road, 
 she's not a going to drag the whole village after her into a 
 slough of despond, not if I have anything to say to it. 
 
 Jane. And I. 
 
 Tab. I hope you agree, Mary. 
 
 Mrs. VV. Certainly. Oh, yes, I'm for morality and good 
 behavior. Would you mind if I go on with this curtain ? 
 
 Tab, Curtain ! What's a curtain got to do with this ? 
 
 Mrs. W. Nothing. But my niece, Annabel, is coming 
 to-day to visit me, and I'm trying to finish her room before 
 she arrives. She'll be here very soon now. {Brings curtain 
 down c. arui begins to seiv on it.) Jonas Worth is going to 
 drive her up from the train. I wish I could go to meet her 
 myself. 
 
 Tab. You've got a more important duty at home, Mary. 
 This is a question of saving souls. {A knock c.) There's 
 Lucindy. I hope she'll be serious and not giggle. 
 
 (Mrs. W. opens door. Enter Miss Lucinda Love. She 
 is ^^fair, fat, and nearly forty " ; carries a ruffled pink 
 parasol.) 
 
 Luc, {cheerfully). Am I late ? 
 Tab. Naturally. 
 
 Luc. I met Jonas Worth driving down to the depot and I 
 stopped to speak to him, 
 
 {Carefully shakes and smooths out parasol.) 
 
THE COMING OF ANNABEL 7 
 
 Tab. {acidly). Of course. 
 
 Jane. Do put your parasol away and come and sit down. 
 The subject has been opened up. 
 
 (Luc. sitSy holding parasol on lap.) 
 
 Luc. The subject ! 
 
 Tab. Mrs. Beulah Black. 
 
 Luc. Oh, yes. 
 
 Tab. I wouldn't mind so much her being a stranger in the 
 village 
 
 Jane. And that's bad enough. 
 
 Tab. In addition to her dressing the way she does, even 
 though it is all in black. Every one turns around to stare at 
 her. 
 
 Jane. I did myself. 
 
 Tab. She's so conspicuous. Why, 1 believe the very cows 
 turn their heads away when they meet her. 
 
 Luc. {flippantly). And even the corn is shocked. 
 
 (Jane and Tab. frown upon her.) 
 
 Tab. But when it comes to her giving a card party in 
 Petersville, it's about time we took a firm stand. 
 
 Luc. And none of us asked. 
 
 Jane. Lucinda Love, that may be your reason for being 
 against her, but it's not mine. 
 
 Tab. And if you can't say anything more sensible than 
 that ray advice to you is to listen. (Luc. opens her parasol 
 and retires behind it.) For thirty years {dropping voice) or 
 more have I lived in Petersville (Luc. shuts the parasol sud- 
 denly and smiles meaningly at Tab.), and never once have I 
 been asked to a card party. 
 
 Jane. They say they had prizes. 
 
 Luc. No, really ? I wonder what they were. 
 
 Tab. And when a perfect stranger, a lady calling herself a 
 widow 
 
 Mrs. W. {interrupting). Now, Tabitha, we ought to take 
 her word for that. 
 
 Tab. When such a person comes to a respectable, virtuous, 
 law-abiding village and then proceeds to tempt our sons and 
 daughters 
 
 Luc. {innocently). F<?//r sons and daughters, Tabitha? 
 
 Tab. {impatiently). I was speaking figuratively, of course. 
 When she tempts them with games of chance, cards I 
 
8 THE COMING OF ANNABEL 
 
 have never handled a card in my life, not even a visiting card. 
 Once I got a valentine from my own sister's child, a foolish 
 thing with a wreath of flowers around two of those little fat 
 cupids — I tore into pieces. I will have no trafficking with 
 vice. 
 
 Mrs. W. Oh, how could you have the heart, Tabitha — 
 your own niece ? Why, 1 keep and prize every card Annabel 
 has ever sent me. 
 
 Jane. Well, the question is, What are we to do ? 
 
 Tab. Something must be done at once, for I have reason 
 to believe this Mrs. Black has come to stay. 
 
 Mrs. W. She will learn wisdom in time. She's young, 
 you know, and pretty. 
 
 Jane. I believe she's older than she looks. These city 
 people do all sorts of things to keep off old age. They use 
 cold cream on their faces. 
 
 Tab. If we had been intended to use cold cream, it would 
 have growed on bushes ready made. Handsome is as hand- 
 some does, I say, and if a woman is going to demoralize a 
 whole village then she's not handsome to me. {Suddenly.') 
 And she's after Jonas Worth. I know it. 
 
 Luc. Oh, ho. 
 
 Jane. I think Mrs. Black knows — I think she's overheard 
 something of our all being against her, and the reason, too. 
 
 Tab. I'm glad of it. 
 
 (Mrs. W. rises and goes to door.) 
 
 Jane. Mary doesn't say much. 
 
 Tab. No, she's too taken up with the thought of this girl 
 Annabel. 
 
 Luc. Have you ever seen her ? 
 
 Tab. Never. 
 
 Luc. I wonder if she's pretty. 
 
 Jane. She's well raised, anyway. And I reckon she'll be 
 scandalized to find folks play cards in Petersville. 
 
 Tab. It's just to protect such young people as this Annabel 
 that this indignation meeting was called. 
 
 Mrs. W. {eagerly). I think she's coming. I believe that 
 is Jonas's buggy. 
 
 Tab. Where? Where? (^Jumps up and runs to door.) 
 
 Luc. Oh, Jonas ! Mrs. Black ! Cards! {Giggles.) 
 
 Jane. Do try and be serious, Lucinda Love. Remember 
 
THE COMING OF ANNABEL Q 
 
 we've got to set an example in Petersville. What will Annabel 
 think ? 
 
 Mrs. W. Here she is, here she is. The dear girl. 
 
 (^ Waves hand.) 
 
 Tab. I wonder if he's coming in too. He's helping her 
 down. Yes, she is pretty. (^Disappointed.) No, he's gone 
 on. {^Comes down Q.) 
 
 Mrs. VV. She's running— she's here. Dear little Annabel. 
 
 Jane. Her mind is on nothing but that girl. 
 
 {All look up c.) 
 
 Enter Miss Annabel Garland. She is a pretty girl about 
 eighteen years old. Carries a small traveling bag. 
 
 Mrs. W. Annabel! {Opens her arms.) 
 
 Anna. Here I am ! (Mrs. W. embraces her.) Dear 
 Aunt Mary. You haven't changed a bit, not a little bit. Oh, 
 I love this place. I had such a lovely drive. And Jonas is 
 so nice. I feel as if I'd known him for years and years. 
 
 Tab. Jonas ! 
 
 (Mrs. W and Anna, cofne down c. Mrs. W. puts travel- 
 ing bag on table.) 
 
 Anna. Oh, you've asked some of your friends in to meet 
 me. How kind ! 
 
 Mrs. W. Miss Tabitha Touchett. (Tab. gives a stiff bow.) 
 Miss Jane Winter. (Jane smiles feebly. Anna, beams upon 
 each in turn.) Miss Lucinda Love. (Luc. runs to Anna. 
 and kisses her.) My niece, Miss Annabel Garland. 
 
 Luc. I feel sure we'll be friends. 
 
 Anna. Every one is so kind in the country. That's why I 
 like to come. There's so much friendliness and real affection 
 and charity in a village, isn't there ? 
 
 Jane. We — we hope so. 
 
 Anna. Oh, but there is. You feel it in the very air. You 
 see it in the faces of the people you meet. It's like a big 
 family, all brothers and sisters, all familiar and easy and honest 
 with one another and always ready to stick up for one another. 
 
 Tab. Yes, provided you were born and raised in the town- 
 ship. 
 
 Anna. You're just as good to strangers. Now I know it. 
 
10 THE COMING OF ANNABEL 
 
 Look how you've come to meet me on the very day I arrive. 
 It's lovely of you. 
 
 (Tab. atid Jane exchange glances. Luc. picks tip the curtain 
 and examines it intently.^ 
 
 Mrs. W. Did you have a pleasant journey, dear ? 
 
 Anna. Oh, yes. It was so interesting. 
 
 Jane. It's rather a long trip to take alone. Didn't you get 
 tired of it ? 
 
 Anna. No. I looked out of the window for a while, and 
 then, you know, I had my cards to amuse me. 
 
 Tab. {piercingly). Cards ! 
 
 Jane {stepping back). Cards ! 
 
 (Luc. drops curtain. Mrs. W. picks it up.) 
 
 Anna. Yes. Whenever I travel I always put a pack of 
 cards in my bag. 
 
 Tab. {bitterly). Another come to Petersville. 
 
 Jane. And we were going to protect her from this very 
 thing. 
 
 Anna. They're not playing cards, you know, but fortune- 
 telling cards, just for amusement. Where's my bag? 
 
 Mrs. W, Here it is, dear. 
 
 Anna, {opetiing bag). Here they are. (Jane and Luc. 
 go up to her.) You see, each card has some prophecy on it. 
 
 Luc. How interesting ! 
 
 Jane. How curious ! 
 
 Mrs. W. They appear to be very harmless. 
 
 Anna. Yes, look at them. 
 
 (Jane takes one very gingerly. Tab. knocks it out of her 
 hand.) 
 
 Jane. Tabitha Touchett ! 
 
 (Luc. picks up card and returns it to Anna.) 
 
 Tab. Cards ! 
 
 Anna. But there's no harm in them. Why, how could 
 they hurt any one ? I don't understand. 
 
 Mrs. W. Of course not, dear. {To Tab.) I won't have 
 her spoiled by any narrow-minded ideas. She sees good in 
 everything. Leave her alone. 
 
 Anna. It's such fun having your fortune told. Of course, 
 
THE COMING OF ANNABEL II 
 
 no one believes it altogether. But it's very amusing. I told 
 the fortune of a very dear friend of mine a little while ago. 
 She is a widow. She nursed lier husband through a long 
 illness with the most wonderful devotion and patience. But 
 he died and she was very sad and lonely. A year later I told 
 her fortune with these cards. I said, " Beulah, you will be 
 going to a new place and will make lots of friends." 
 
 Luc. Beulah ! 
 
 Anna. Well, she did go away. Wouldn't you like me to 
 tell your fortune? 
 
 Luc. Oh — er — oh, yes — I'd like it. 
 
 Tab. I advise you, Lucinda Love, to refuse. 
 
 Mrs. W. Let her judge for herself, Tabitha. 
 
 Luc. It would be a strange experience. Yes, I would like 
 to have my fortune told. Miss Annabel, 
 
 Anna. Very well. 
 
 i^Sits gipsy fashion on floor facing audience and begins to 
 sort cards. After a moment Luc. kneels beside her.^ 
 
 Mrs, W, I'll just go on with my curtains. 
 
 (Sits and sews. Jane and Tab. stand looking dovm at 
 Anna., Jane the nearer to them.') 
 
 Tab. This is folly. 
 
 Anna. I will shuffle the cards. Please draw one. Thanks. 
 I'll put that here and place three cards above and three below. 
 (^Places cards.) Now we'll see what they say. {Turns up 
 cards, one by one.) Oh, a legacy. You will come into money 
 somewhere about middle age. 
 
 Luc. That's a long way off. 
 
 Tab. {coming nearer). Not so very far, 
 
 Anna. You have two sweethearts. 
 
 Luc. {smiling). Have I ? 
 
 Anna. One is tall and dark. Avoid him, 
 
 Luc. It will be rather hard. 
 
 Anna. But the fair one will make a good, true husband. 
 You will be married soon. 
 
 Luc. Yes, yes. 
 
 Jane. Well, Lucinda Love, you might have told me about 
 it. 
 
 Luc. 1 don't tell everything. 
 
 Tab. And what about me, Lucindy? I've always been 
 your friend. 
 
12 THE COMING OF ANNABEL 
 
 Mrs. W. {dropping her sewing). Oh, don't take it so seri- 
 ously. It will never do. 
 
 Anna, {laughing). No, no, it's only for fun. 
 
 Luc. Of course. Tell me more. 
 
 Anna. Yours is a fortunate hand. You will be happy and 
 healthy and live to a good old age. 
 
 Tab. {suddenly going down on her knees). Tell mine. 
 
 Anna. Do you really want me to? 
 
 Tab, Yes, please. 
 
 (Mrs. W. rises and comes to them. Luc. rises.) 
 
 Anna. Draw a card, please. (Tab. draws a card, holding 
 it by the extreme edge of the corner. Anna, takes it.) Oh, 
 the clover leaf. That is lucky. {Places cards on floor as 
 before and turns them j/p.) Beware of a short, fair woman. 
 She will do you harm if possible. 
 
 (Tab. looks sharply at Luc.) 
 
 Luc. Oh, don't suspect me. 
 
 Anna, {turning up a card). Be careful of all wheeled 
 vehicles at the change of the moon, or you may have an 
 accident. 
 
 Tab. Nonsense. I don't believe it. 
 
 Anna. A friend is going to give you a present. It looks 
 like something to eat. 
 
 Jane. That's me. I left a pun'kin pie at your house for 
 you this morning. 
 
 Anna. There is not a great deal in this hand. 
 
 Tab. {disappointed). Nothing — romantic? {A gentle knock 
 c. ; no one hears it. Tab., eagerly turning over the cards, 
 leans forivard on her hands. Enter Mrs. Beulah Black. 
 She is a very pretty, extremely stylish young widow.) What's 
 this one mean ? 
 
 {Holds 1/p a card. Mrs. B. comes down c.) 
 
 Mrs. B. I hope I'm not intruding, Mrs. Wright. But I 
 knocked. 
 
 (Luc. pokes Jane 7oith her parasol.) 
 
 Mrs. W. {going to her). Oh, Mrs. Black. I'm very glad 
 to see you. 
 
THE COMING OF ANNABEL 1 3 
 
 Mrs. B. What are they doing? Telling fortunes. How 
 very shocking ! 
 
 (Anna, looks up.) 
 
 Anna. Beulah ! {Jumps tip, scattering cards, and runs 
 to her.) Beulah darling ! (^Embraces her.) Why didn't you 
 tell me you were coming to Petersville ? 
 
 (Tab. begins to gather up the cards.) 
 
 Mrs. B. I didn't know it myself. Chance brought me 
 here, and I thought I would see if I liked it before I decided 
 to stay and let my friends know. 
 
 Anna. (Jo Mrs. W.). This is the friend— the very one 1 
 was speaking of. You know every one, of course, Beulah ? 
 Oh, I suppose you're the pet of the village already. {To 
 Jane.) No one can know her and not love her. 
 
 Luc. (Jo Jane). And none of us has even called. 
 
 (Mrs. B. goes to Tab.) 
 
 Tab. I s'pose you wonder what I'm doing with these, 
 Mrs. Black. 
 
 Mrs. B. I'm glad to see you are amusmg yourself. 1 was 
 led to believe there was a certain amount of narrow prejudice 
 in Petersville, but I see I have been misinformed. {Smiles.) 
 
 Tab. {rising and holding cards). They're not mine. 
 
 Anna, {impulsively). Yes, they are. I make you a present 
 of them, for I never saw any one more interested in them. 
 
 Tab. {aghast). No, no. {Holds them out.) 
 
 Anna. Yes, yes. I won't be refused. I can get another 
 
 pack. 
 
 Mrs. W. Take them, Tabitha. 
 
 Anna. Yes, take them home and when you're lonely or 
 dull amuse yourself with them and think of me. 
 
 Tab. (slowly). Thank you.— If I think of you it will be like 
 thinking of sunshine. {Goes up c.) Good-bye Mrs. Black. 
 I've sort of changed my mind about things. Mary, it 1 m 
 a-going to take these home I'll do it in the face of every one. 
 No hiding in the woods for Tabitha Touchett. 
 
 {She goes out, holding the cards in front of her with both 
 hands.) 
 
 Mrs. W. There goes a narrow but an honest soul. 
 
14 THE COMING OF ANNABEL 
 
 Jane. And I go with her, cards and all. (^Goes to Anna., 
 seizes her hand, then suddenly kisses her.^ Good-bye. Hold 
 on there, Tabitha. (^Runs out.') 
 
 Luc. Mrs. Black, I'm coming to see you if 1 may. 
 
 Mrs. B. Oh, do. I'll be delighted. 
 
 Luc. {going to Anna.). And you — I tell you, my dear, I 
 can't thank you enough for coming here to Petersville. I'd 
 like to do something for you. If you ever want the loan of my 
 parasol, let me know. 
 
 {Exit Luc. Anna, goes up c. and ivaves her hand from 
 the door. Mrs. W. goes to Mrs. B. and takes her hand 
 in both of hers.) 
 
 Anna. There's nothing like the country for real kindness. 
 
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 HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR i[;:"lTi']Jli'.^r,r'"T?,^ 
 
 males, three females. Costumes, modern ; scenery, one interior. 
 Acting rights reserved. Time, a full evening. Price, 50 Cents. 
 
 AN inPAI HIKRAM) foniedy in Pour Acts. By OscAK Wilde. 
 rtll lVL,l\Li llUJUrtnif Xinemales, six females. Costumes, mod- 
 ern ; scenery, thre<' interiors. Plays a full evening. Acting rights 
 reserved. Sold lor reading. Price, 50 Cents. 
 
 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST i^r i" S'a'u 
 
 Wilde. Five males, four females. Costumes, modern ; scenes, two 
 interiors an<l an exterior. Plays a full evening. Acting rights re- 
 served. Price, 5(> Cents. 
 
 LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN ^-«^ ^'^^^I l^lfes,^^^^ 
 
 males. Costumes, modern ; scenery, three interiors. Plays a full 
 evening. Acting rights reserved. Price, 50 Cents. 
 
 NATHAN HAI F J^l^^y i» FQ"'' Acts. By Clyde fitch. Fifteen 
 i''**"'*^' llrtL/lj niales, four females. Costumes of the eighteenth 
 century in America. Scenery, four interiors and two exteriors. Act- 
 ing rights 1 eserved. Plays a full evening. Price, 50 Cents. 
 
 THF nTHFD FFIT HW Comedv in Three Acts. ByM. B. Horxe. 
 lUC Vllim rmiyVn six males, four females." Scenery, two 
 interiors; costumes, modern. Professional stage rights reserved. 
 Plays a full evening. Price, .50 Cents. 
 
 THF TVDANNV (\V TFADQ <'omedy in Four Acts. By C. H. 
 IIIC iinAnni Vr 1CA^^ Chambeks. Four males, three fe- 
 males. Scenery, an interior ;uiil an exterior; costumes, modern. 
 Acting rights reserved. Plays a full evening. Price, 50 Cents. 
 
 A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE ?;::^%^^^:'I,^l-^l 
 
 seven females. Costumes, modern ; scenery, three interiors and an 
 exterior. Plays a fiiU evening. Stage rights reserved. Offered for 
 reading only. Price, 50 Cents. 
 
 Sent prepaid on receipt of price by 
 
 Walttt 1$. l5aUv a, Company 
 
 No. 5 Hamilton Place, Boston, Massachusetts 
 
 S. J. PARKMILL &. CO.. PRU-JTERS. BOSTON