Angel Agnes
ANGEL AGNES: Or, the Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport. The Strangely Romantic History and Sad Death of Miss Agnes Arnold, the Adopted Daughter of the Late Samuel Arnold, of This City. Wealthy, Lovely, and Engaged to Be Married, Yet This Devoted Girl Volunteered to Go and Nurse Yellow Fever Patients at Shreveport, Louisiana. After Three Weeks of Incessant Labor She Met with a Painful and Fatal Accident. _She Died in the Hope of a Blessed Immortality_. Her Intended Husband, Who Had Followed Her to Shreveport, Had Already Died, and the Two
RITA. [Looks at him with deep reproach.] How could you--how could
you!
ALLMERS. I had Asta to think of.
RITA. [Angrily.] Yes, Asta! [Bitterly.] Then it was really Asta
that brought us two together?
ALLMERS. She knew nothing about it. She has no suspicion of it,
even to this day.
RITA. [Rejecting the plea.] It was Asta, nevertheless! [Smiling,
with a sidelong glance of scorn. ] Or, no--it was little Eyolf.
Little Eyolf, my dear!
ALLMERS. Eyolf--?
RITA. Yes, you used to call her Eyolf, did you not? I seem to
remember your telling me so--once, in a moment of confidence.
[Coming up to him.] Do you remember it--that entrancingly beautiful
hour, Alfred?
ALLMERS. [Recoiling, as if in horror.] I remember nothing! I will
not remember!
RITA. [Following him.] It was in that hour--when your other little
ANGEL AGNES: Or, the Heroine of the Yellow Fever Plague in Shreveport. The Strangely Romantic History and Sad Death of Miss Agnes Arnold, the Adopted Daughter of the Late Samuel Arnold, of This City. Wealthy, Lovely, and Engaged to Be Married, Yet This Devoted Girl Volunteered to Go and Nurse Yellow Fever Patients at Shreveport, Louisiana. After Three Weeks of Incessant Labor She Met with a Painful and Fatal Accident. _She Died in the Hope of a Blessed Immortality_. Her Intended Husband, Who Had Followed Her to Shreveport, Had Already Died, and the Two