The Skin Game (A Tragi-Comedy)

CHARACTERS HILLCRIST...............A Country Gentleman AMY.....................His Wife JILL....................His Daughter DAWKER..................His Agent HORNBLOWER..............A Man Newly-Rich CHARLES.................His Elder Son CHLOE...................Wife to Charles ROLF....................His Younger Son FELLOWS.................Hillcrist's Butler ANNA....................Chloe's Maid THE JACKMANS............Man and Wife AN AUCTIONEER A SOLICITOR TWO STRANGERS ACT I. HILLCRIST'S Study ACT II. SCENE I. A month later. An Auction Room. SCENE II. The same evening. CHLOE'S Boudoir. ACT III SCENE I. The following day. HILLCRIST'S Study. Morning. SCENE II. The Same. Evening.
JILL. You know, Dodo, it's all pretty good rot in these days.
HILLCRIST. Cads are cads, Jill, even in these days.
JILL. What is a cad?
HILLCRIST. A self-assertive fellow, without a sense of other people.
JILL. Well, Old Hornblower I'll give you.
HILLCRIST. I wouldn't take him.
JILL. Well, you've got him. Now, Charlie—Chearlie—I say—the importance of not being Charlie——
HILLCRIST. Good heavens! do you know their Christian names?
JILL. My dear father, they've been here seven years.
HILLCRIST. In old days we only knew their Christian names from their tombstones.
JILL. Charlie Hornblower isn't really half a bad sport.