CAST OF CHARACTERS

Colonel J. N. Smith, D.S.O.H. Reeves Smith
William Faraday, J. P.Stanley Dark
Admiral Grice, R. N.Arthur Lawrence
Honorable Robert TarverIvo Dawson
James RaleighWallace Widdecombe
Henry SteeleHenry Hull
MartinHalbert Brown
Celia FaradayMargaret Anglin
Evelyn TrenchardMrs. Ruth Holt Boucicault
Madge RockinghamHelen Langford
Phyllis FaradayGertrude Hitz
Mrs. Chisholm FaradayMaude Granger

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

ACT I. Room in Mr. Faraday's House, February 11th. Evening.

ACT II. Same as Act I. Eight months later. About six o'clock.

ACT III. Morning room in Mr. Faraday's house. Evening same day.

DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTERS

Admiral Grice (Retired), a testy old gentleman of about sixty-five, with the manner of an old sea dog, of ruddy complexion, with white hair and whiskers.

William Faraday, a well-preserved man of about sixty-five. Fashionable, superficial and thoroughly selfish.

Colonel Smith, a dignified, dryly humorous man of military bearing, about forty years old.