[She Stoops to Conquer]
Persons in the Play
Mr. Hardcastle | Marlow |
Tony Lumpkin | Kate Hardcastle |
Hastings | Sir Charles Marlow |
Mrs. Hardcastle | Constance Neville |
Servants | |
Act I
Scene I.—Mr. Hardcastle's house. MR. and MRS. Hardcastle.
Mrs. Hardcastle: I vow, Mr. Hardcastle, I hate such old-fashioned trumpery.
Hardcastle: And I love it; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine, and I believe you'll own I've been pretty fond of an old wife.
Mrs. Hardcastle: Oh, you're for ever at your old wife. I'm not so old as you'd make me. I was twenty when my son Tony was born, and he's not come to years of discretion yet.