Excerpt from Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace: A Comedy in Four Acts Near the fireplace, and in full view of the whole audience, there is an ornamental bowl, standing on a high pedestal and containing a flowering plant. It is the late afternoon of a summer day. Mrs. J ardine, a well-dressed, middle-aged woman, is lying asleep on the sofa. Enter mrs. Gorringe, a younger woman, always elaborately but never vulgarly dressed. She wears a handsome house dress and no hat. She appears restless and preoccupied all through her scene with mrs. J ardine. When mrs. Gorringe closes the door, mrs. J ardine wakes with a start, blinks and looks up with out taking her feet down. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.