Why Marry?
Why Marry?
Free DownloadThis is a comedy in three acts originally published as And So They Were Married.
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lder.] Rex is just the sort to give the woman he adores everything in the world.
JEAN
[wriggling out of LUCY'S embrace]
I am not the woman he adores.
LUCY
Why, Jean! He's engaged to you.
JEAN
But he's in love with my sister. You know that as well as I do.
LUCY
[uncomfortably]
Oh, well, he was once, but not now. Men admire these independent women, but they don't marry them. Nobody wants to marry a sexless freak with a scientific degree.
JEAN
Oh, what's the use, Lucy? He's still wild about Helen, and she still laughs at him. So you and John have trotted out the little sister. Why not be honest about it.
LUCY
Well, I may be old-fashioned, but I don't think it's nice to talk this way when you're just engaged.
JEAN
Here comes your "sexless freak"--not with a degree, either.
LUCY
[following JEAN'S gaze]
With a man!
JEAN
[smiling]
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FEATURED AUTHOR - Alice K. Boatwright is the author of the Ellie Kent mysteries, which debuted with Under an English Heaven, winner of the 2016 Mystery and Mayhem Grand Prize for Best Mystery. The series continues with What Child Is This? and In the Life Ever After. Alice has also published other fiction, including Collateral Damage, three linked novellas about the Vietnam War era; Sea, Sky, Islands, a chapbook of stories set in Washington’s San Juan Islands; and Mrs. Potts Finds Thanksgiving, a holiday parable… Read more