I wonder what he meant by the same person might not be
master, and the same persons might not be servants.
CATHERINE. Do be quiet, Mary, and leave it to nature; he said nature
would decide.
LADY MARY. I wonder--
(But she does not wonder very much. She would wonder more if she
knew what was coming. Her book slips unregarded to the floor. The
ladies are at rest until it is time to dress.)
End of Act I.
ACT II
THE ISLAND
Two months have elapsed, and the scene is a desert island in the
Pacific, on which our adventurers have been wrecked.
The curtain rises on a sea of bamboo, which shuts out all view save
the foliage of palm trees and some gaunt rocks. Occasionally
Crichton and Treherne come momentarily into sight, hacking and
hewing the bamboo, through which they are making a clearing between
the ladies and the shore; and by and by, owing to their efforts, we
shall have an unrestricted outlook on to a sullen sea that is at
present hidden. Then we shall also be able to note a mast standing
out of the water--all that is left, saving floating wreckage, of the
ill-fated yacht the Bluebell.
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