Excerpt from Truants: A Comedy in One Act, for Church Purposes (Scene. A bachelor-girl's living apartment. Any large city. A folding bed, center R and a small reading table beside it. The bed is used w as a divan. Two easy chairs center L, and two small chairs C back. Exit on L leading to hall, and on R to kitchen. It is evening. Enter Anna Gray, R, slowly, gazing at a small piece of paper in her hand. Crosses to divan and sits down.) Anna. (Soliloquizing) Why can't I have ather adventure like that!. . . How is it we have never met since, I wonder? (Gazing at slip of paper again) It is a wonderful likeness - the work of a real artist, surely. (Sighing) Oh well, I suppose these things happen to every girl - (Enter Florence Green, L, and crossing softly to Anna, overhears part of the soliloquy.) and she forgets all about them. It's all in a lifetime. Fro. (Stands behind Anna a moment, smiling) Who is it? Anna. (Stands, tries to hide the picture) Oh! you frightened me! 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 techlogy 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.