Herbert:Well, we’ll soon find out. I’ll go and ask her, and if she did it I’ll kill her.

Mrs. Sunbury (волнуясь): And get yourself hung for murder? No, Herbert, I won’t let you go. Let your dad go, and when he comes back we’ll decide what to do.

Mr. Sunbury: That’s right, Herbert, let me go. (Уходит, через некоторое время возвращается): She did it all right. She told me straight out. She’s proud of it. I won’t repeat her language, it fair startled me, but the long and short of it was she was jealous of the kite. She said Herbert loved the kite more than he loved her and so she smashed it up and if she had to do it again she’d do it again.

Herbert: Lucky she didn’t tell me that. I’d have wrung her neck even if I’d had to swing for it. Well, she never gets another penny out of me, that’s all.

Mr. Sunbury: She’ll sue you.

Herber t: Let her.

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So on the following Friday he did not send Betty her weekly money. Betty took to waiting for him at the station, and when he wouldn’t speak to her followed him down the street screaming curses at him. In the evenings she would come to the house and ring the bell till they thought they would go mad. Once she threw a stone and broke the sitting–room window. She wrote obscene and abusive postcards to him at his office. At last she went to the magistrate’s court and complained that her husband had left her and wasn’t providing for her support. Herbert received a summons. They both told their story and if the magistrate thought it a strange one he didn’t say so. He tried to effect a reconciliation between them, but Herbert resolutely refused to go back to his wife.

Scene 21.

Magistrate: Herbert Sunbury, I ordere you to pay Elizabeth Bevan twenty–five shillings a week.

Herbert: I will not pay it.

Magistrate: Then you’ll go to prison.

Herber t: I said I wouldn’t pay her and I won’t, not after she smashed my kite. And if you send me to prison I’ll go to prison.

Magistrate: Then you’re a very foolish young man. Put the defendant away!

(Подходит пристав, " связывает" Герберту руки. Все замирают- конец!!! )