half after eight
To the uninitiated these scrawls would look impossible ; but to the stage-manager 's keen , imaginative eye a whole picture is represented in these few pothooks . Each object on the stage is labeled alphabetically ; thus A may represent a sofa , B a window , C a table , and so forth and so on . I am not a dramatist ; I am not writing an acting drama ; so I find that a diagram of the library in Senator Blank 's house is neither imperative nor advisable . It is half after eight ; the curtain rises ; the music of a violin is heard coming from the music-room ; Colonel Annesley is discovered sitting in front of the wood fire , his chin sunk on his breast , his hands hanging listlessly on each side of the chair , his face deeply lined . From time to time he looks at the clock . I can imagine no sorrier picture than that of this loving , tender-hearted , wretched old man as he sits there , waiting for Karloff and the ignominious end . Fortune gone with the winds , poverty leering into his face , shame drawing her red finder across his brow , honor in sackcloth and ashes !