Between the acts, the audience shuffles, talks, laughs, and snippets are given of their conversations.
The play within the play tells of a baby left in a basket and an old crone in later years recognizing that the baby is the rightful heir. Villagers sing in the background, and the history moves into the Elizabethan era, in which a play within the play is acted out. She is shortly replaced by a slightly older girl who is England at the time of the Canterbury Tales. It is to be a pageant which traces the great scenes of English history and literature, and a little girl begins, calling herself England. While the two of them are up at the house, the pageant begins. Swithin shows Dodge the rooms where she grew up, and in a moment of intimacy, Dodge wishes he might confess his life to her, but he doesn't. Swithin decides to get up and show the house to the guests only Mr.
The conversational tensions prove too much for Isa, who keeps thinking that she desires a beaker of cold water.
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