WIDOW MACKAY, _tenant of Balree Croft_. MÀIRI[1] MACKAY, _her daughter, a domestic servant_. “SANDY” SPEEDWELL, _artist and poet, of Edinburgh_. MRS SPEEDWELL, _his mother_. SCENE: _The “best room” in a crofter’s cottage in the Scottish Highlands. To the left a small open window, round which honeysuckle clings and blooms, affords a glimpse of a blue loch, softly screened by the drooping branches of a silver birch, and glistening in bright sunshine. Beside the window Màiri Mackay sits knitting a white shawl. A folding table, with the leaves down, occupies the centre of the room and is covered with a Mackay tartan plaid. Upon it stands a dark blue bowl filled with wild roses. Widow Mackay sit…
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