RACHEL

The scene is a room scrupulously neat and clean and plainlyfurnished. The walls are painted green, the woodwork,white. In the rear at the left an open doorway leadsinto a hall. Its bare, green wall and white baseboardare all that can be seen of it. It leads into the otherrooms of the flat. In the centre of the rear wall ofthe room is a window. It is shut. The white sashcurtains are pushed to right and left as far as they willgo. The green shade is rolled up to the top. Throughthe window can be seen the red bricks of a house wall,and the tops of a couple of trees moving now and thenin the wind. Within the window, and just below thesill, is a shelf upon which are a few potted plants.Between the window and the door is a bookcase full ofbooks and above it, hanging on the wall, a simplyframed, inexpensive copy of Millet’s “The Reapers.”There is a run extending from the right center to justbelow the right upper entrance. It is the vestibule ofthe flat. Its open doorway faces the left wall. In theright wall near the front is another window. Here thesash curtains are drawn together and the green shadeis partly lowered. The window is up from t