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Article: "Nay lady, sit": the dramatic and human dimensions of 'Comus.'
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- ANQ
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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Sixteen-year-old Alice is away at boarding school. Her parents have sent her the money to fly home for the Thanksgiving weekend, and her cousin Tom is driving her twenty miles to the airport along a back road on a rainy November evening.
At a lonely spot where the road passes through an extensive forested area, the car skids on the wet pavement and lands in a ditch. Neither Alice nor Tom is hurt, but the car can't be driven, and rain is falling heavily. They wait but see no passing car. Since Tom is wearing a raincoat, he offers to walk back to the gas station they passed a few minutes earlier, while Alice waits in the car.
As time passes and Tom has not ...