Dramatis Personæ
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Lester Drane, a successful scientist, who trades all for romantic love.
Emily Tyler, a gifted girl, who trusts only her womanly intuition.
Howard Story, a modern man, who despises life apart from Art.
Algeria Westover, a true Bohemian, a person, no longer young, who imitates herself.
Genevieve Strang, a “new woman,” a girl with the code of a gentleman.
Other Persons and Creatures, Bankers, People, Writers, Friends, Radicals, Janitresses, Painters, Zoölogists, Waiters, Poets, Fakirs, Prostitutes, Children, Critics, Marionettes, Enemies, Artists, Ghosts, Etc.
Scene: The Metropolitan City of New York.
Time: Late Autumn, Winter, Early Spring, three years after the Great War.