Mrs. Dot: A Farce

by W. Somerset Maugham

Charles.

Lady and Miss Sellenger.

[Enter Lady Sellenger and Nellie. Lady Sellenger is a pompous woman of fifty, stout, alert and clever. Nellie is very pretty and graceful, and fashionably gowned. She appears to be much under her mother’s influence.

Lady Sellenger.

How d’you do? Ah, Mrs. Worthley! Delightful!

Gerald.

[Shaking hands.] How d’you do? I think you know Mr. Blenkinsop?

Lady Sellenger.

Of course. But I don’t approve of him.