the
press.

GEORGE. No, I don't. But I remember that you can't keep me from
spreading the news among your men. And I don't think----

BRAITHEWAITE [angry and advancing on him]. I could have you prosecuted
for blackmail, sir. Have you no honor?

GEORGE. Sure. My honor says provide for your family. I've got the
makings of a big man in me, Mr. Braithewaite. You can't chain me down
with a poor man's morals.

BRAITHEWAITE. Well! I----

GEORGE. I'll work in any job you give me, too. I'm not asking for a
cinch, only a chance. If she-- [pointing to UNA]--could teach me, Naomi
can.

BRAITHEWAITE [after a pause]. Well, call around at my office in the
morning.

GEORGE. Thanks. [He goes out.]

UNA [sitting to weep]. And I thought I could be unusual.

BRAITHEWAITE [patting her]. It's easy enough for Shaw, dear. He only
writes it.

UNA [jumping up]. That's it. I'll write it. I'll write a play showing
it's useless trying to escape the usual. [Running up to her father,
GEORGE'S cap in her hands.] That will be unusual, won't it, Dad?

[Reenter GEORGE.]

GEORGE. Excuse me. I left my cap.

UNA [stretching it out to him without looking at him]. Here it is.

GEORGE [taking it]. Thanks. [Approaching her.] Buck up, Miss! You meant
well.

UNA. I suppose I was too daring.

GEORGE. If you ask me, I think the trouble was you and that Shaw fellow
wasn't daring enough. Marriage is a very particular sort of business.
Now if you'd come up to me in the street and just asked me to---- [UNA
and BRAITHEWAITE look at GEORGE.] Well--I--I guess I'll go. But remember
my tip next try, Miss.

[He goes out quickly, leaving UNA gradually grasping the idea and
appreciating it, while her father's shock at what GEORGE has said is
increased only by noticing his daughter's reception of the words.]

Curtain.

III. OVERTONES

A One-Act Play

By Alice Gerstenberg

Author of "Unquenched Fire," "The Conscience of Sarah Platt," and
Dramatization of "Alice in Wonderland," etc.

Copyright, 1913, by Alice Gerstenberg

"Overtones" was produced by the Washington Square Players under the
direction of Edward Goodman at the Bandbox Theatre, New York City,
beginning November 8, 1915, to represent an American one-act play on a
bill of four comparative comedies, "Literature" by Arthur Schnitzler of
Austria, "The Honorable Lover" by Roberto Bracco of Italy, and "Whims"
by Alfred de Musset of France. In the cast were the following:

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