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[5]:
Characters
WARDEN HOLT, about sixty
FATHER DALY, the prison chaplain
JAMES DYKE, the Prisoner
JOSEPHINE PARIS, the Girl, about eighteen
DAN, a Jailer
AN ATTENDANT
Scene
The Warden's office in the State's Prison at Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Time
About half-past eleven on a rainy night.
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[7]: The curtain rises upon the Warden's office in the State's Prison at Wethersfield, Connecticut.
It is a large, cold, unfriendly apartment, with bare floors and staring, whitewashed walls;
it is furnished only with the Warden's flat-topped desk, swivel chair, a few straight-backed chairs,
one beside the desk and others against the walls, a water cooler and an eight-day clock.
On the Warden's desk are a telephone, a row of electric
pushbuttons, and a bundle of
forty or fifty letters. At the back of the room are two large windows, crossed with heavy bars;
at the left is a door to an anteroom, and at the right are two doors, of which the more distant
leads to the office of the deputy warden; the nearer is seldom used.
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[20]: THE GIRL. He used to play games with me when I was a little girl, and tell me stories...
[T]that's what I'm counting on mostly...the stories.
THE WARDEN. I'm afraid...
THE GIRL. Especially Shakespeare stor[i]es.
THE WARDEN. Shakespeare!
THE GIRL. Why yes. He used to get the plots of the plays...all the Shakespeare plays...out of a book by a man named Lamb, and then he'd tell me the stories
in his own words. It was wonderful.
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