On a night train on the Boston and Albany Road, Mrs. Agnes Roberts chatters to her aunt while the porter makes up the berths and the other passengers try to sleep. Her talk sets off a chain of misunderstandings in the dark that ends with her flustered husband hauling at the neckcloth of a large and indignant Californian.
A deft one-act farce by the dean of American letters, still easy to stage and read aloud. Download the free EPUB.