Bill
sighs relievedly, and looks at Florence with the same sort
of light in his eyes that one sees in those of a faithful
dog. This dog-like devotion is to be the developing keynote
of Bill's character.
89--Roof of house. Night.
Policeman comes up on roof, looking around.
90--Ella's room. Gas-lit.
Bill is thanking Florence. She tells him that she will go
down and see whether the coast is clear, and he sits down
with a grateful look as she goes quietly out.[54]
[Footnote 54: Compare the present scene and the one following, in
respect to varying treatment of conveyed information. Here the girl
merely indicates what she intends to do, and her statement of the fact
is not given as dialogue-in-scene, since the next scene will make
clear her unregistered words; but see how dialogue-in-scene is
employed in the scene that comes next, emphasizing in the briefest way
just what the player feels by what she thinks and unconsciously forms
with her lips.]
91--Front of "Row." Night. From the tenement doorway.
The injured man is being made to stand. Florence comes into
the scene, pausing on stoop of the "Row" and watches as the
injured party feigns great pain, and gasps:
_Cut-in leader--_
"HONEST--HE NEAR CROAKED ME.
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