Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour

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Maugham William Somerset. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour

LADY FREDERICK

THE FIRST ACT

THE SECOND ACT

THIRD ACT

THE EXPLORER

THE FIRST ACT

THE SECOND ACT

THE THIRD ACT

THE FOURTH ACT

A MAN OF HONOUR

THE FIRST ACT

THE SECOND ACT

THE THIRD ACT

THE FOURTH ACT

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Scene: Drawing-room of the Hotel Splendide at Monte Carlo. A large, handsomely furnished room, with doors right and left, and French windows at the back leading to a terrace. Through these is seen the starry southern night. On one side is a piano, on the other a table with papers neatly laid out on it. There is a lighted stove.

Lady Mereston, in evening dress, rather magnificently attired, is reading the papers. She is a handsome woman of forty. She puts down the paper impatiently and rings the bell. A servant answers. He has a French accent.

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For heaven's sake don't let's talk of my affairs. They're in such a state that if I think of them at all I shall have a violent fit of hysterics.

But look here, what d'you really mean?

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