Cousin Fanny Hemlock
John Speaker
Mary Speaker
John Thinker
Mary Thinker
Maid
Period, the present. Place, any American city.
The Scene represents two drawing rooms, exact duplicates, furnished alike to the smallest detail. Either room might be the reflection of the other in a mirror. Each occupies half of the stage. The division line between them is indicated, towards the hack of the stage, by two pianos, which sit hack to back at the center of the hack drop. This division is carried by the pianos a quarter or a third of the way towards the footlights. The division is further suggested, towards the front of the stage, hy a couple of settees or couches, which also sit back to back.
John Speaker and Mary Speaker remain all the time in the room at the right of the stage. They are not aware of John Thinker and Mary Thinker, who are, throughout the play, in the room at the left. The Thinkers, however, are aware of the Speakers.
In make-up, looks, dress, etc., the twoJohns are precisely alike. The same is true of Mary Speaker and Mary Thinker. The Johns are conventional-looking, prosperous Americans of from 38 to 40 years of age. The two Marys are a few years younger.