Scenes and Characters
Reading edition
Act i. Blair’s Picture Gallery off Regent Street page 1
Act ii. Drawing room at Sir Solomon Raub’s Town House in Charles Street, Mayfair 14
Act iii. Three months later. Lord Belvoir’s flat in Half Moon Street 35
Act iv. The same. Some months later 63
Man-About-Town. Old Man. A Woman. A Man
First Young Man. Second Young Man
Muriel Raub. Lord Belvoir. Parlourmaid
Lady Olivia, daughter of the Marquis of Beaufort
Sir Solomon Raub, millionaire Jewish financier, head of Raub Bros, China & East India merchants
Lady Phaoron, a woman of fifty, wife of Sir Philo
Sir Philo Phaoron, famous Egyptologist, small, and about 60–65
Harringham, butler to Sir Solomon Raub
Nosegay, valet to Lord Belvoir, a simple stolid fellow of 28
Hon. Rupert Clavelly
Captain Anthony, a creation of Belvoir’s imagination, made up exactly to resemble the Old Man of Act I, but with a white beard
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