Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
About This Book
A one-act play stages a small wartime domestic scene in which elderly charwomen gather for tea, trading gossip, jokes and minor rivalries while vivid stage detail evokes cramped rooms and everyday resourcefulness. Conversation and narration gradually reveal a concealed offence connected to the hostess, prompting shifts between humor, social judgment and compassion as the group negotiates loyalty, dignity and the blurred lines between respectability and survival.