By John Galsworthy

PERSONS OF THE PLAY

In the Order of Appearance

Charles Winsor..................  Owner of Meldon Court, near Newmarket
lady Adela......................  His Wife
Ferdinand de Levis..............  Young, rich, and new
Treisure........................  Winsor’s Butler
general Canynge.................  A Racing Oracle
Margaret Orme...................  A Society Girl
Captain Ronald Dandy, D.S.O.....  Retired
Mabel...........................  His Wife
inspector Dede..................  Of the County Constabulary
Robert..........................  Winsor’s Footman
A constable.....................  Attendant on Dede
Augustus bobbing................  A Clubman
lord st Erth....................  A Peer of the Realm
A footman.......................  Of the Club
Major Colford...................  A Brother Officer of Dancy’s
Edward Graviter.................  A Solicitor
A young Clerk...................  Of Twisden & Graviter’s
Gilman..........................  A Large Grocer
Jacob Twisden...................  Senior Partner of Twisden & Graviter
Ricardos........................  An Italian, in Wine

Act I.
     Scene I. Charles WINSOR’s dressing-room at Meldon Court, near
                Newmarket, of a night in early October. 
     Scene II.  De Levis’s Bedroom at Meldon Court, a few minutes later.

Act II. 
     Scene I. The Card Room of a London Club between four and five in
                the afternoon, three weeks later. 
     Scene II.  The Sitting-room of the Dancys’ Flat, the following
                morning.

Act III. 
     Scene I. Old Mr Jacob Twisden’s Room at Twisden & Graviter’s in
                 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, at four in the afternoon, three
                 months later. 
     Scene II.  The same, next morning at half-past ten. 
     Scene III.  The Sitting-room of the Dancys’ Flat, an hour later.

ACT I

SCENE I

The dressing-room of Charles Winsor, owner of Meldon Court, near Newmarket; about eleven-thirty at night.  The room has pale grey walls, unadorned; the curtains are drawn over a window Back Left Centre.  A bed lies along the wall, Left.  An open door, Right Back, leads into lady ADELA’s bedroom; a door, Right Forward, into a long corridor, on to which abut rooms in a row, the whole length of the house’s left wing.  WINSOR’s dressing-table, with a light over it, is Stage Right of the curtained window.  Pyjamas are laid out on the bed, which is turned back.  Slippers are handy, and all the usual gear of a well-appointed bed-dressing-room.  Charles Winsor, a tall, fair, good-looking man about thirty-eight, is taking off a smoking jacket.

Winsor.  Hallo!  Adela!