CHARLES WINSOR……………… Owner of Meldon Court, near Newmarket
LADY ADELA…………………. His Wife
FERDINAND DE LEVIS………….. Young, rich, and new
TREISURE…………………… Winsor's Butler
GENERAL CANYNGE…………….. A Racing Oracle
MARGARET ORME………………. A Society Girl
CAPTAIN RONALD DANDY, D.S.O….. Retired
MABEL……………………… His Wife
INSPECTOR DEDE……………… Of the County Constabulary
ROBERT…………………….. Winsor's Footman
A CONSTABLE………………… Attendant on Dede
AUGUSTUS BOBBING……………. A Clubman
LORD ST ERTH……………….. A Peer of the Realm
A FOOTMAN………………….. Of the Club
MAJOR COLFORD………………. A Brother Officer of Dancy's
EDWARD GRAVITER…………….. A Solicitor
A YOUNG CLERK………………. Of Twisden & Graviter's
GILMAN…………………….. A Large Grocer
JACOB TWISDEN………………. Senior Partner of Twisden & Graviter
RICARDOS…………………… An Italian, in Wine
ACT I. SCENE I. CHARLES WINSOR's dressing-room at Meldon Court, near Newmarket, of a night in early October. SCENE II. DE LEVIS'S Bedroom at Meldon Court, a few minutes later.
ACT II. SCENE I. The Card Room of a London Club between four and five in the afternoon, three weeks later. SCENE II. The Sitting-room of the DANCYS' Flat, the following morning.
ACT III. SCENE I. OLD MR JACOB TWISDEN'S Room at TWISDEN & GRAVITER'S in Lincoln's Inn Fields, at four in the afternoon, three months later. SCENE II. The same, next morning at half-past ten. SCENE III. The Sitting-room of the DANCYS' Flat, an hour later.
ACT I
SCENE I
The dressing-room of CHARLES WINSOR, owner of Meldon Court, near Newmarket; about eleven-thirty at night. The room has pale grey walls, unadorned; the curtains are drawn over a window Back Left Centre. A bed lies along the wall, Left. An open door, Right Back, leads into LADY ADELA's bedroom; a door, Right Forward, into a long corridor, on to which abut rooms in a row, the whole length of the house's left wing. WINSOR's dressing-table, with a light over it, is Stage Right of the curtained window. Pyjamas are laid out on the bed, which is turned back. Slippers are handy, and all the usual gear of a well-appointed bed-dressing-room. CHARLES WINSOR, a tall, fair, good-looking man about thirty-eight, is taking off a smoking jacket.
WINSOR. Hallo! Adela!
V. OF LADY A. [From her bedroom] Hallo!
WINSOR. In bed?