"
[SIGSBY enters.]
SIGSBY I have countermanded them.
GEOFFREY Countermand them again. We shall want a thousand.
SIGSBY [Can hardly believe his ears.]
GEOFFREY [With a gesture round the room.] All of them. "A Man
for Men!" "Save the Children!" "Guard your Homes!" All the
damned collection. Order as many as you want.
SIGSBY [His excitement rising.] I can go ahead. You mean it?
GEOFFREY [He looks at him.] It's got to be a fight! [A moment.
He returns to his writing.] Telephone Hake that I shall be dining
at the Reform Club.
CURTAIN.
THE THIRD ACT
SCENE:- A room in the Town Hall, Poplar. A high, bare, cold room,
unfurnished except for cane-bottomed chairs ranged against the
walls. French windows right give on to a balcony overlooking the
street. Door in back opens upon a stone passage. A larger door
opens into another room, through which one passes to reach the room
in which the counting of the votes is taking place. A fire burns--
or rather tries to burn.
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