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SCENE: The same as the previous Acts. It is 4.30 in the morning. The room is softly lighted by electricity, not all the lamps being turned on.
On the curtain rising BEATRICE is discovered asleep in an arm-chair L.C. MARGARET is looking out of window. There is a pause. MARGARET walks the room. Evidently she is thinking distractedly of her lost child. She stops once to look down at the sleeping girl, and seeing that the rug over her knees has slipped down she gently readjusts it. She then crosses to fire-place and puts a fresh log on fire. Hearing the sound of a passing taxi, she hurries to the window and looks out through the curtains. As it doesn't stop she comes back into the room with a disappointed air and resumes her restless walk. "Big Ben" is heard striking 4.30.