A young man enters
GUENEVERELancelot!
LANCELOT: Guenevere! (They go up to each other, and he takes both her hands. They stand that way for a moment.
Then he says lightly) Darning King Arthur's socks, I see!
GUENEVERE (releasing herself, and going back to her chair) Yes. Sit down.
LANCELOT Where's his royal highness?
GUENEVERE New York Why don't you ever come to see us?
Source: Dell, Floyd King Arthur's Socks. 1922. King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays. Whitefish: Kessinger
Publishing, 2004. Google Books. Web 7 July 2011
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details?

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Add -ment to the following word. you may use a dictionary

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