So Like Her Father Author:James Vila Blake 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 2. SCENE—The same as in Act I. Time, evening; lamps lighted in room. On table at window a water-bottle filled, and empty glass. Madam and Diamond dis- ... more »covered. Madam. Must I speak more plainly, Diamond? Dia. I think I may be pardoned if I have no taste for any man at present. Madam. Yes, for the present; but not for the future, and the present controls the future. Dia. We have supposed this man Connor rich, but we don't know it. We have only the hints in father's letters. Madam. I managed in the talk yesterday to lead him to acknowledge it. He's a transparent creature. Well, he is rich, therefore desirable; honest, therefore safe; your father's passionate friend, that's your opportunity; you are beautiful, that's your power. Dia. And so, with these advantages, to let him pass Madam. Would be rank folly. Dia. And you think it safe ? Madam. Why not? Dia. The child. Madam. Ellen will not tell. She was a fool, of course, but she'll be so to the end. Besides, she is resolved to keep the child, and she understands that if the truth be known we'll send the wretched little interloper packing. Dia. But if he finds a child here, it will turn him from all of us, even if he think it Ellen's. Madam. That's not likely. Ellen keeps the baby well out of sight, and luckily the brat is not a crying one. If he does find her, a little fib straightens it—she's a neighbor's child loaned for a day. I have banished Ellen to the extreme east room, and my sewing room is on the west corner. It will work awhile—long enough, if you will act well. Hark, I hear Joyce at the outer door—yes, she is letting Mr. Connor in. Run off, Diamond, listen at the door, and make a telling entrance at the right moment. I'll give you a signal by sneezing. And, Diamond, it's early eveni...« less