PERSONS OF THE PLAY

THE SCENE

EXTRACTS FROM REVIEWS OF "IN VIVID GARDENS"

A Modern Morality Play

By
MARGUERITE WILKINSON
Author of “In Vivid Gardens” and “By a Western Wayside”

Once, long ago, a peasant greatly desired to visit his king that he might obtain of him judgment and equity, and perhaps find favor. But he said within himself, “I am a faulty man; a homespun smock will scarce commend me to a king. I will stay at home and let others plead my case.” And when his case was taken before the king, (who was a good and just man) the king said, “Why did he not come himself? Homespun I can forgive if a man bring his soul and stand before me bravely. I will have no dealings with go-betweens.”

Here then, is my work, faulty, and plainly clad, but brave enough to go humbly before you who read and think, and by your thinking rule. If it find favor, it can be clothed anew in finer raiment. If judgment and equity prevail against it, surely it is well enough shrouded.

Copyright, 1915, by Marguerite Wilkinson

To the memory of
my father,
a strong and valiant lover of the soul of man, and
to his brave mate
my mother