The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy

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Jerome Klapka Jerome. The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy

CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY

THE FIRST ACT

THE SECOND ACT

THE THIRD ACT

THE FOURTH ACT

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Scene: —Drawing-room, 91, Russell Square.

(Mrs. Elizabeth Spender sits near the fire, reading a book. She is a tall, thin woman, with passionate eyes, set in an oval face of olive complexion; the features are regular and severe; her massive dark hair is almost primly arranged. She wears a tailor-made costume, surmounted by a plain black hat. The door opens and Phoebe enters, shown in by Hake, the butler, a thin, ascetic-looking man of about thirty, with prematurely grey hair. Phoebe Mogton is of the Fluffy Ruffles type, petite, with a retroussé nose, remarkably bright eyes, and a quantity of fluffy light hair, somewhat untidily arranged. She is fashionably dressed in the fussy, flyaway style. Elizabeth looks up; the two young women shake hands.)

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Janet. But this gives us everything.

St. Herbert. It depends upon what you call everything. It gives a woman the right to go to the poll – a right which, as a matter of fact, she has always possessed.

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