Summary

Scene One is titled “Visiting Hours,” and begins with an image of “Liz, Wisehammer, Arscott [and] Caesar all in chains” (66). Liz speaks at length, and in language that seems both crude and streetwise, about her life. She starts by answering a question that seems to have been answered just before the scene actually starts. “Luck?” she says. “Don’t know the word” (66) and describes how her father framed her for a theft, how she became a prostitute, how she became a pickpocket, was caught, sentenced to transport to Australia, and had hopes for a new life, particularly with the play – that is, until Ross decided she was to hang. Wisehammer vows to continue protesting his innocence, revealing his plans to return to England. When Liz says he is not English, he says he was born in England and will return. Liz says...