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Ребят, все ремарки пишу на русском, чтоб все понятнее было.

The Kite.

Actors.

Author.

His friend, Ned Preston.

Mrs. Sunbury.

Mr. Sunbury, her husband.

Herbert Sunbury, their son.

Miss Bevan, Betty.

Scene 1.

(Кафе. Автор и его друг. Автора будут звать Эдвард. Перед ними немного выпивки, видно что сидят давно, они разговаривают, и мы становимся свидетелями части диалога )

NED (задумчиво): I’ve got a funny chap to deal with at the Scrubs just now. And I’m blowed if I know how to deal with him.

ED: What’s he in for

NED: He left his wife and the court ordered him to pay so much a week in alimony and he’s absolutely refused to pay it. I’ve argued with him till I was blue in the face. I’ve told him he’s only cutting off his nose to spite his face. He says he’ll stay in jail all his life rather than pay her a penny. I tell him he can’t let her starve, and all he says is: “Why not? ” He’s perfectly well behaved, he’s no trouble, he works well, he seems quite happy, he’s just getting a lot of fun out of thinking what a devil of a time his wife is having.

ED: What’s he got against her?

NED: She smashed his kite.

ED ( в шоке ): She did what?

NED: Exactly that. She smashed his kite. He says he’ll never forgive her for that till his dying day.

ED: He must be crazy.

NED: No, he isn’t, he’s a perfectly reasonable, quite intelligent, decent fellow. His name is Herbert Sunbery. His family is very intillegent. His mother is strict enough and farther works in the City. Herbert is the only child the Lord had vouchsafed to them. So his parents always doted on him. Mrs Sunbury brought him up carefully.

Scene 2.

(Маленький Герберт играет с ребятами на улице, мама зовет его домой. )

Mrs. Sunbury (сурово): Herbert, come home, quickly! I forbid you to play with other kids. Evil communications corrupt good manners, I always have kept myself to myself and I always shall keep myself to myself. Now, Herbert, do what I do; keep yourself to yourself and don’t have anything more to do with that boys than you can help. Wash your hands, the lunch is waiting for you.

(вся семья за столом)

Herbert: Mom, why won't we move to the city?

Mrs. Sunbury: You never know who people are in London. One thing leads to another, and before you know where you are you’re mixed up with a lot of riff–raff and you can’t get rid of them.

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(здесь, и в последующих промежутках слова автора. )

Time has passed. Herber left school and Samuel Sunbury had got him into the office of the accountants who came twice a year to do the accounts of his own firm and by the time he was twenty–one he was able to bring back to his mother every

week quite a nice little sum.