CHARACTERS
Reading edition
Mrs Mary Loving, a widow. Rachel Loving, her daughter. Thomas Loving, her son. Jimmy Mason, a small boy. John Strong, a friend of the family. Mrs. Lane, a caller. Ethel Lane, her daughter. Mary, Nancy, Edith, Jenny, Louise, Martha, little friends of Rachel.
Time: The first decade of the Twentieth Century.
Act I. October 16th. Act II. October 16th, four years later. Act III. One week later.
Place: A northern city. The living room in the small apartment of Mrs. Loving.
All of the characters are colored.
ACT I
RACHEL