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Title: If
Edition: 11
Language: English
If
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
JOHN BEAL
MARY BEAL
LIZA
ALI
BERT, BILL: two railway porters
THE MAN IN THE CORNER
MIRALDA CLEMENT
HAFIZ EL ALCOLAHN
DAOUD
ARCHIE BEAL
BAZZALOL, THOOTHOOBABA: two Nubian door-keepers
BEN HUSSEIN, Lord of the Pass
ZABNOOL, SHABEESH: two conjurers
OMAR, a singer
ZAGBOOLA, mother of Hafiz
THE SHEIK OF THE BISHAREENS
IF
ACT I
SCENE 1
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Bloody.
BERT
BILL
BERT
What's up then?
BILL
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Ain't I! Proper.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Yes.
BERT
Tuesday?
BILL
Yes.
BERT
BILL
Yes. Drops 'er bag. Writes to the company.
They writes back she shouldn't 'av
got in. She writes back she should. Then
they gets on to me. Any more of it and
I'll...
BERT
BILL
I will.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Good morning. . . .
BILL
JOHN
BILL
JOHN
BILL
JOHN
BILL
BERT
BILL
JOHN
BILL
Curtain
SCENE 2
Yesterday evening.
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
JOHN
What, Mary?
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
John!
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
[Enter LIZA.]
LIZA
MARY
LIZA
He's black.
MARY
Black?
JOHN [reassuring]
MARY
JOHN
MARY
Fifty pounds!
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
No.
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
LIZA
MARY
JOHN
MARY
ALI
JOHN
O, er--yes. Good evening.
ALI
JOHN
O, ah, yes.
ALI
JOHN
JOHN
Your offering?
ALI
JOHN
As it came to you?
ALI
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
Water.
JOHN
ALI
Even so.
JOHN
MARY
ALI
Even so.
JOHN
ALI
Much.
JOHN
Well, what?
ALI
MARY
John!
JOHN
JOHN
By Jove!
MARY
JOHN
ALI
Even so.
JOHN
ALI
MARY
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
ALI
MARY
John!
JOHN
MARY
ALI
Is there no step that you would wish
untrodden, nor stride that you would make
where once you faltered?
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
Well?
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
Even so.
MARY
JOHN
ALI
It is so.
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
MARY
ALI
JOHN
Shall I remember?
ALI
No.
JOHN
If I want to do anything different to what
I did, how shall I remember when I get back
there?
MARY
JOHN
All right.
ALI
JOHN
Five minutes?
ALI
Even ten.
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
ALI
JOHN
MARY
[Exit.]
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
O, I'm so glad.
JOHN
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
[MARY smiles.]
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
Yes, John?
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
But what?
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
What is it?
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
MARY
N-n-no.
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
Well, what?
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
But why?
MARY
JOHN
There wasn't.
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
JOHN
MARY
Good night?
JOHN
I shall stay here on the sofa holding the
crystal and thinking. Then I'll have a
biscuit and start at seven.
MARY
JOHN
MARY [sadly]
JOHN
MARY
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
JOHN
MARY
O, John!
JOHN
Hmm.
Curtain
SCENE 3
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Bloody.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Nothing ain't right.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Ain't I! Proper.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Yes.
BERT?
Tuesday?
BILL
Yes.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
I will.
BERT
BILL
JOHN
Go to hell!
BILL
Ullo.
BERT
BILL
BERT
BILL
Never knew 'im like this.
BERT
BILL
Never in my life.
BERT
Well, I never.
BILL
BERT
Must 'ave.
[Train is heard.]
BILL
Curtain
SCENE 4
MIRALDA CLEMENT
MIRALDA CLEMENT
MIRALDA CLEMENT
Certainly.
MIRALDA CLEMENT
MIRALDA CLEMENT
JOHN
JOHN
[Silence again.]
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
O, it was, really.
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
O, not at all.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
No, nobody.
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
I--I'd do my best.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Really?
MIRALDA
Yes. He didn't like me. I think he did it
out of contrariness as much as anything.
He was always like that to me.
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
No.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA [sadly]
No.
JOHN
Where's it invested?
MIRALDA
In Al Shaldomir.
JOHN
Where's that?
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Do they?
MIRALDA
JOHN
I see.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
No.
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
Yes?
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
[Pause.]
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
Gratzenheim's.
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Curtain
ACT II
SCENE
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
DAOUD [returning]
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE, it's splendid of you.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Well, what are you putting them in heaps
for?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
'M, y-yes. I think so.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
The pass?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Yes, I know.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
But what?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD [off]
Great master.
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
[Enter DAOUD.]
ARCHIE BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
It is well.
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
He is my son.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Yes.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
How do you know?
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Haven't changed?
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD [off]
Master. [Enters.]
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
But what I mean is--what's she like?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
O, no. Go on.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Such what?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
But you haven't even seen her.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN [off]
I am here.
JOHN BEAL
Be seen.
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
I am honoured.
HUSSEIN
And I.
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
Even so.
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
I do.
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
I will pay.
JOHN BEAL
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
I pay to Hinnard.
JOHN BEAL
Hinnard is dead.
HUSSEIN
I pay to Hinnard.
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Who to?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
No.
ARCHIE BEAL
What'll we do?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
No, it isn't.
JOHN BEAL
If we were in England . . .
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Yes?
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Why?
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
She? How?
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
O, I don't know.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
O, well.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
By coming here.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Why not?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
But why?
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Well, if it did you've never met her, so you
needn't go into mourning for an elderly lady
that you don't know; not yet, anyway.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
O, I don't know.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Er--well, yes, I suppose I do, really.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
What beats me is how you can have the
very faintest inkling of what she's like
without ever having seen her and without my
having spoken of her to you for more than a
minute.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
OMAR [Off]
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
The nightingales that guard thy ways . . .
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Master, I go.
JOHN BEAL
OMAR
JOHN BEAL
OMAR
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
I wouldn't worry.
JOHN BEAL
Wouldn't worry? But, good Lord, the
situation's impossible. People would talk.
Don't you see what people would say? And
where could they go? Who would look after
them? Do try and understand how awful
it is. But it isn't. It's impossible. It can't
be them. For heaven's sake run out and see
if it is; and (good Lord!) I haven't brushed
my hair all day, and, and--oh, look at me.
Enter ARCHIE.]
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
Didn't you?
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
O, there were some Arabs coming this way
in a caravan. They were really very good to
me too.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
O, a week or so.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
Hussein won't pay.
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
Never mind.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
Do they? How?
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
Well, I . . .
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
Have you?
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
H'm.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
No, certainly.
MIRALDA
Was to interfere in people's
religious beliefs.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
Why?
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
I see.
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
Yes, master.
JOHN BEAL
Hasten.
[Exit DAOUD.]
MIRALDA
I don't know their language.
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
He must come.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
HUSSEIN [off]
I am here.
JOHN BEAL
Be seen.
[Enter HUSSEIN.]
HUSSEIN
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Well?
JOHN BEAL
He won't pay.
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Yes.
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
O, no.
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
By my law?
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
I--I; but what can I . . . You see,
you're all alone. If you'd anyone with you,
you could have . . .
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
Not to tell . . .
MIRALDA
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
Here's Daoud.
[Enter DAOUD.]
JOHN BEAL
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
Ho! Enter!
JOHN BEAL
ARCHIE BEAL
JOHN BEAL
MIRALDA
DAOUD
JOHN BEAL
BAZZALOL [bowing]
Curtain
ACT III
SCENE 1
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
The nightingales that guard thy ways
Cease not to give thee, after God
And after Paradise, all praise.
Thou art the theme of all their lays.
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir. . . .
MIRALDA
Go now, Omar.
OMAR
O lady, I depart.
[Exit.]
MIRALDA [languidly]
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Yes, it is.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
Don't be crazy.
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
It is not my wish.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
O, do not be tiresome.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Is it not enough that you are my beloved?
You know there is none other but you. Is
it not enough, Miralda?
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
I want to be queen.
JOHN
[He rises.]
MIRALDA
JOHN
No.
MIRALDA
JOHN
In half an hour.
MIRALDA
In half an hour?
JOHN
Yes.
[Exit.]
MIRALDA
Half an hour.
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
Did I, Hafiz?
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
He said so.
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
I know him.
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ [embracing]
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRANDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
MIRANDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
O lady, it is well.
MIRALDA
Go now, Hafiz.
HAFIZ
BAZZALOL [kneeling]
O, master!
HAFIZ
BAZZALOL
Aye, master.
THOOTHOOBABA
[Exit HAFIZ.
Enter DAOUD.]
JOHN
Why not?
MIRALDA
JOHN
JOHN
Daoud.
DAOUD
Great master.
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
. . . . to be true to me always.
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
I have sought to, master.
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
No, master.
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
Master, he that was mightiest of those that
were kings in Babylon had a secret door
prepared in an inner chamber, which led to a
little room, the smallest in the palace, whose
back door opened secretly to the river, even
to great Euphrates, where a small boat waited
all the days of his reign.
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
No, master.
JOHN
DAOUD
Hafiz el Alcolahn.
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
Well?
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
Some were, master, as men have to be in
all countries. The others went into the
mountains and robbed the merchants.
JOHN
I see.
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
And, master, if ever I come to you bearing
oars, then watch no longer, master, but follow
me through the banquet chamber and through
the room beyond it. Move as the wild deer
move when there is danger, without pausing,
without wondering, without turning round;
for in that hour, master, in that hour . . . .
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
A door, Daoud?
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
O, and then?
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
A boat?
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
No, master.
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
DAOUD
JOHN
[Enter MIRALDA.]
MIRALDA
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
What about?
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
O, no.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
O, nothing.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
DAOUD
Hist!
JOHN
O, well . . .
Exit DAOUD.]
MIRALDA
JOHN
O, well, as you say, it had nothing to do
with us.
MIRALDA
JOHN
I forget.
MIRALDA
JOHN
What is it?
MIRALDA
JOHN
What is it?
MIRALDA
JOHN
I will not.
MIRALDA
JOHN
I am glad of it.
MIRALDA
I do not really wish you to kill Daoud.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
A banquet? Why?
MIRALDA
JOHN
No.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Very well.
MIRALDA
JOHN
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
Hafiz? Why?
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
Go?
JOHN
Yes.
MIRALDA
Why?
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
Very well.
[Exit L.
JOHN
Speak!
[BAZZALOL is silent.
BAZZALOL
I cannot.
JOHN
BAZZALOL
JOHN
When?
BAZZALOL
Who?
BAZZALOL
JOHN
THOOTHOOBABA
JOHN
BAZZALOL
JOHN
Death, eh? And how will you die if you
speak? You know how you will die?
BAZZALOL
Yes, heaven-sent.
JOHN
BAZZALOL
JOHN
BAZZALOL
JOHN
It is well.
Curtain
SCENE 2
Ho, Bishareens!
SHEIK
BISHAREENS
Ah, ah!
Watch.
FIRST BISHAREEN
He comes.
SHEIK [turning]
Hear, O Bishareens.
A BISHAREEN
SHEIK
HAFIZ
So.
SHEIK
SHEIK
Hear, O Bishareens!
Like that.
SHEIK
THE BISHAREENS
Ah, ah!
[Exit HAFIZ.
Curtain
SCENE 3
JOHN
Yes.
MIRALDA
He is not here.
JOHN
MIRALDA
No.
JOHN
Why?
MIRALDA
JOHN
A NOTABLE
OFFICER-AT-ARMS
OFFICER-AT-ARMS
A NOTABLE
A WOMAN
The Shereef?
NOTABLE
ZABNOOL
ZABNOOL
CONJURER
[Exit.
SHABEESH
MIRALDA [reprovingly]
SHABEESH
MIRALDA
SHABEESH
MIRALDA
SHABEESH
MIRALDA
Why not?
JOHN
ZABNOOL
A NOTABLE
A NOTABLE
Still he is silent.
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
Why?
OMAR [singing]
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
Birds sing thy praises night and day;
The nightingale in every wood,
Blackbirds in fields profound with may;
Birds sing of thee by every way.
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
My heart is ringing with thee still
Though far away, O fairy fields,
My soul flies low by every hill
And misses not one daffodil.
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
O mother of my roving dreams
Blue is the night above thy spires
And blue by myriads of streams
Paradise through thy gateway gleams.
MIRALDA
MIRALDA
JOHN
MIRALDA
JOHN
HAFIZ
JOHN
JOHN
JOHN
OMAR [singing]
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
The nightingales that guard thy ways
Cease not to give thee, after God
And after Paradise, all praise,
CRIES [off]
MIRALDA
He is there.
A NOTABLE
ANOTHER
A BISHAREEN
HAFIZ
SHEIK [off]
He is not here.
HAFIZ
MIRALDA
HAFIZ
Curtain
ACT IV
SCENE 1
Time: Evening.
JOHN
Al Shaldomir, Al Shaldomir,
The nightingales that guard thy ways
Cease not to give thee, after God
And after Paradise, all praise. . .
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
Must? Why?
JOHN
I don't know.
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
Oh.
LIZA
He is.
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA [kindly]
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
Lost millions.
LIZA
Millions?
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
Miss.
LIZA
Yes?
JOHN
LIZA
'Ave I?
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
Miss, I must.
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
I don't know what she'll . . .
Curtain
SCENE 2
A moment later.
LIZA
MARY
LIZA
MARY
JOHN [entering]
I am a beggar.
MARY
MARY
Hunger?
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
MARY
JOHN
I have not met such kindness for three
years. I . . . I'm starving. I've known
better times.
MARY [kindly]
JOHN
O, I'm so sorry.
MARY
JOHN
LIZA [who has been standing near the door all the
time]
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
Cheer up!
JOHN
That's all very well to say, living in a fine
house, as you are, dry and warm and well-fed.
But what have I to cheer up about?
LIZA
JOHN
What?
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
I've no watch.
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
I don't know.
LIZA
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
Why?
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
Had it long?
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
Yes?
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
Course it could.
JOHN
Look at me.
LIZA
You'll be all right one of these days. Give
me that mascot.
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
[Face in hands--tears.]
LIZA
LIZA
JOHN
H'm. Sounds like it . . . Liza.
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
JOHN
LIZA
MARY
JOHN
MARY
LIZA
JOHN
Mary.
MARY
Yes, John.
JOHN
Curtain
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