DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

COLONEL CHALLENGER.
HARRY BARTON.
BASIL ROYSTON.
MRS. TEMPLETON.
JULIA TEMPLETON.
JOSEPHINE TEMPLETON.
} (her nieces.)

SCENE.—Mrs. Templeton’s Villa at Roehampton.

Handsomely furnished apartments; large French window at C. looking on a garden. Doors R. H. and L. H. At R. H. a table, on which is an open album; at L. C. another table covered with papers, etc.; table, sofa, chairs, etc.

Enter MRS. TEMPLETON at C., followed by COLONEL CHALLENGER.

COL. Cousin Martha, you are wrong, wrong, wrong! a thousand times wrong!

MRS. T. Cousin Samuel, I’m right, right, right! ten thousand times right!

COL. (aside). Obstinate old woman!

MRS. T. (aside). Pig-headed old man!

COL. What possible reason can you have for setting your face against Josephine’s getting married? It’s downright tyranny! Call yourself an aunt, indeed!