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Ghost: This is it! Before I leave, take this box, it’s full of gold and
jewellery.
The ghost seems
(Virginia takes the box. They kneel down and pray. Virginia cries.) a little friendly now.

Just a Minute!
Virginia: Oh, please, God forgive him. I know he did a terrible Do you agree?
thing, but he is sorry for what he did. Please, let him rest in peace.

Oh dear God, listen to my prayer.
(The ghost disappears.)

Virginia: Sir Simon! Sir Simon!

(Virginia hears some voices calling her.)

Mrs Otis: Virginia! Virginia! We have been
looking for you.

Mr Otis: Virginia, are you all right?

Mrs Otis: What are you doing here?

Virginia: I was with Sir Simon.

Mr Otis: Where is he?

Virginia: Sir Simon is gone… forever.

Mrs Otis: What do you mean he’s gone?

Virginia: He is now in heaven with his
wife. God has forgiven him.

Mr Otis: Let’s go back home. There you will
tell us everything about the ghost.

Mrs Otis: At last, we will have a good
night’s sleep.

Mr Otis: And we will never see the stain again.

(They hug and leave.)

—Adapted into a play from Oscar Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost

About the Poet
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. He published two collections of
children’s stories, The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), and The House of Pomegranates (1892). His first and only novel,
The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published in an American magazine in 1890. The plays ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’, ‘A Woman
of No Importance’ (1893), ‘An Ideal Husband’ (1895) and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ (1895) firmly established him as a
playwright.

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