Excerpt from The Unknown: A Play in Three Acts Mrs. Wharton is sitting in the corner of the sofa, knitting a khaki comforter. She is a slight, tall woman of five-and -fifty she has deliberate features, with kind eyes and a gentle look; her dark hair is getting very gray; it is simply done and her dress, too, is simple; it is not at all new and was never fashionable. Kate, a middle-aged maid-servant, in a print dress, a cap and apron, comes in. 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.