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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ACT HI Editorial offices of the' 'Journal des Poetes Mondains.'' The setting is the shape of a right-angled triangle, the hypotenuse of which is the row of footlights. On the left are two large windows opening upon a balcony. Up-stage, on the same side, is a door opening so that the spectator sees the reverse side of it, upon which is written: Journal des Poetes Mondains. Editorial offices. No admittance to the Public. Half-way up-stage is a fireplace on the mantel above which are a heap of newspapers and a lighted lamp. Down-stage is a door with the inscription: Editor's Office. Between the two windows on the right, some distance from the wall and facing it, is a long and wide desk; there are a lighted lamp, papers, books, and the like, on it. Down-stage to the right and left are armchairs. Between the windows, against the watt, is a console with chrysanthemums, and above it a lighted gas jet. There is a fire in the fireplace and a chair on either side of it. As the curtain rises, the two windows and the door are open. The stage is empty a moment, then D'ESTOMBREUSE, CABEREBAC, and TOMBELAIN enter through the window, down-stage, as Pingoux and Davenay enter through that at the back. Tombelain. Well, that man got out of it beautifully Davenay. I'm still quite?er D'estombreuse. Were you frightened? Davenay closing the window]. If the car-driver hadn't performed the miraculous feat of stopping his horses just where he was, and bringing the car to a halt at once, the man would have been killed. Pingoux. Close the window, D'Estombreuse, we're freezing D'estombreuse doing so]. Very amusing to live here, isn't it? and see all the accidents? Davenay. That's why they charge more for the mezzanines. Tombelain. Lord, how cold it is To the office...