THE PROFLIGATE
THE FIRST ACT.
THIS MAN AND THIS WOMAN.
The scene is the junior partner’s room in the offices of Messrs. Cheal and Murray, solicitors, Furnival’s Inn, Holborn. There is a gloomy air about the place, with its heavy, old-fashioned furniture, its oak-panelled walls and dirty white mantelpiece, and its accumulation of black tin deed-boxes.
Hugh Murray, a pale, thoughtful, resolute-looking man of about thirty, plainly dressed, is writing intently at a pedestal-table. He pays no heed to a knock at the door, which is followed by the entrance of Mr. Ephgraves, an elderly, sober-looking clerk, who places a slip of paper before him.
Hugh Murray.
Lord Dangars.
Ephgraves.
Yes.
Hugh Murray.
Mr. Cheal always sees Lord Dangars.