PHILIP (smiling). Perhaps I'd better bring my revolver, in case he isn't.
JAMES (laughing with forced heartiness as they go together to the door). Ha, ha! A good joke that! Ha, ha, ha! A good joke—but only a joke, of course. Ha, ha! He, he, he!
[PHILIP goes out. JAMES, following him, turns at the door, and looks round the room in a bewildered way. Was it a dream, or wasn't it? He will never be quite certain.]
BELINDA
An April Folly in Three Acts
BELINDA TREMAYNE.
DELIA (her daughter).
HAROLD BAXTER.
CLAUDE DEVENISH.
JOHN TREMAYNE.
BETTY.
The action takes place in Belinda's country-house in Devonshire at the end of April.
This play was first produced by Mr. Dion Boucicault at the New Theatre, London, on April 8, 1918, with the following cast:
Belinda Tremayne—IRENE VANBRUGH.
Delia—ISOBEL ELSOM.
Harold Baxter—DION BOUCICAULT.
Claude Devenish—DENNIS NEILSON-TERRY.
John Tremayne—BEN WEBSTER.
Betty—ANNE WALDEN.