if i were you

A small cottage interior . there is an entrance back right [ which may be curtaineg ]. another door to the left must be a practical door.

the furniture is simpls consisting of a small tabie towards the left a chair or two and a divan rather upstage on the right. On the tabls is a tetephone. 

[ when the curtani rises gerrard is standing by the tabls making a phone call. he is of medium height and wearing horn rimmed glasses ......He is dressed in a lounge suit and a great coat. his voice is cultured.]

well tell him to phone up directly. i must know..... yes I expect i ii still be here but you mustn count on that in about ten minutes time. Right ho  goodbye.

any thing you like i know all the answers. but before we degin i should like to change my position you may be comfortable but i am not .

sit dowe there asd no funny business [ motions to a chair and seats himself on the divan by the bag ], now then we have a nice little talk about yourelf

  at last a sympathetic audience lll tell you the story of my life how as a child i was stolen by the gypsies and why at the age of thirty two i find myself in my lonely essex cottage how.....