Landed Gentry: A Comedy in Four Acts

by W. Somerset Maugham

I didn’t imagine that you would invite total strangers to stay with you.

Grace.

I don’t know that there’s any other way of describing them.

Mrs. Insoley.

I dare say that is a sufficient description in itself.

[Miss Hall comes back with Claude and Archibald.

Mrs. Insoley.

I’m going to my room, Louisa. I shall be ready for you to read to me in a quarter of an hour.

Miss Hall.

Very good, Mrs. Insoley. [To Grace.] I suppose you don’t have prayers on Sunday night?