ACT I
TABLEAU I
The Double Life
The Stage represents a room in the Deacon’s house, furnished partly as a sitting-, partly as a bed-room, in the style of an easy burgess of about 1780. C., a door; L.C., second and smaller door; R.C., practicable window; L., alcove, supposed to contain bed; at the back, a clothes-press and a corner cupboard containing bottles, etc.
Mary Brodie at needlework; Old Brodie, a paralytic, in wheeled chair, at the fireside, L.
SCENE I
To these, Leslie, C.
Leslie. May I come in, Mary?
Mary. Why not?
Leslie. I scarce knew where to find you.