Upon the word of a Queen.
ZOON: I kiss your h ...
[_She standing kills him kneeling. He falls off Aether Mountain, behind
it out of sight._
[_As he falls he calls her name after intervals. She kneels upon the
summit and watches him falling, falling, falling._
[_Fainter and fainter as he falls from that tremendous height comes up
her name as he calls it._
Zoomzoomarma! Zoomzoomarma! Zoomzoomarma!
[_Still she is watching and he is falling still._
[_At last when his cry of_ ZOOMZOOMARMA _comes almost unheard to that
incredible height and then is heard no more, she turns, and with
infinite neatness picking up her skirts steps down daintily over the
snow._
[_She is going Earthward as the curtain falls._
CURTAIN.
CHEEZO
_DRAMATIS PERSONAE_
SLADDER, _a successful man_.
SPLURGE, _his secretary and publicity agent_.
THE REV. CHARLES HIPPANTHIGH.
BUTLER.
MRS. SLADDER.
ERMYNTRUDE SLADDER.
SCENE
_The big house that_ SLADDER _has bought in the country._ SLADDER'S
_study. Large French window opening on to a lawn._
_Time: Now._
SLADDER'S _daughter is seated in an armchair tapping on the arm of it a
little impatiently._
_The door opens very cautiously, and the head of_ MRS. SLADDER _is put
round it._
MRS. SLADDER: O, Ermyntrude.
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