Excerpt from The Grey Stocking and Other Plays

Persons of the Play

Count Peter Velichkovsky, twenty-five years old.

Henry Alston, thirty-six years old.

Basil Alston (his brother, an Oxford Don), forty years old.

Wilfrid Beenham (in the Education Office), twenty-seven years old.

Robert Macfarlane (on the staff of a weekly review) thirty years old.

Charles Meriot.

Tommy Connybeare, twenty-five years old.

James Simpson (an architect), thirty years old.

Hugo Willborough, forty-five years old.

Lady Sybil Alston, twenty-seven years old.

Miss Farrer (an authoress), thirty-six years old.

Mrs. James, forty years old.

Alice Willborough (Hugo's wife), thirty-five years old.

Miss Rennett, fifty years old.

Mrs. Simpson.

Footman.

The action takes place at Rockley, Henry Alston's house in Surrey.

Three weeks elapse between Acts I. and II., one week between Acts II. and III., and twelve days between Acts III. and IV.

Scenes

Act I. The Garden at Rockley.

Act II. Morning Room at Rockley.

Act III. Drawing-Room at Rockley.

Act IV. The Garden at Rockley.

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