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A one-act comedy set among the blooming cherry trees of a country property open for sale. Two prospective buyers, a young woman and a young man, slip away from the house inspection and meet on a rustic bench, exchanging wry observations about family portraits, domestic plans, and companions who favor practicality. Their light, flirtatious conversation reveals differing desires about ownership, freedom, and surviving expectations, while suggestions of reformist impatience and whimsical resistance to conventional plans surface. The short scene balances gentle satire of real-estate ambitions and social manners with an intimate, character-driven encounter that leaves the pair poised between acquiescence and playful independence.

Sweet and Twenty
A COMEDY IN ONE ACT

By

FLOYD DELL

Author of
MOON CALF

First produced by the Provincetown Players, New York City January 25, 1918, with the following cast:

THE YOUNG WOMAN Edna St. Vincent Millay
THE YOUNG MAN Ordway Tead
THE AGENT Otto Liveright
THE GUARD Louis Ell

CINCINNATI
STEWART KIDD COMPANY
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