The Voysey Inheritance TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text EDWARD. [looking at her as she at him.] Well, you've the right to be. This deed . . it's not done yet . . is your property.<br><br>ALICE. Thank you. I've always wanted to have something useful to my credit . . and I'd almost given up hoping.<br><br>Then suddenly his face changes, his voice changes and he grips the hand he is holding so tightly as to hurt her.<br><br>EDWARD. Alice, if my father's story were true . . he must have begun like this. Trying to do the right thing in the wrong way . . then doing the wrong thing . . then bringing himself to what he was . . and so me to this. [he flings away from her.] No, Alice, I won't do it. I daren't take that first step down. It's a worse risk than any failure. Think . . I might succeed.<br><br>ALICE stands very still, looking at him.<br><br>ALICE. It's a big risk. Well . . I'll take it.<br><br>He turns to her, in wonder.<br><br>EDWARD. You?<br><br>ALICE. I'll risk your becoming a bad man. That's a big risk for me.<br><br>He understands, and is calmed and made happy.<br><br>EDWARD. Then there is no more to be said, is there?<br><br>ALICE. Not now. [as she drops this gentle hint she hears something--the hall door opening.] Here's Booth back again.<br><br>EDWARD. [with a really mischievous grin.] He'll be so glad he's convinced me.<br><br>ALICE. I must go back to Honor, poor girl. I wonder she has a tear left. COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheVoyseyInheritance.pdf
