Sacred and Profane Love: A Play in Four Acts, Founded Upon the Novel of the Same Name (Classic Reprint)

Mrs. Joicey ssitting-room on the first fioor of her house in the Five Towns. Door L. (as one faces the footlights, and double doors back centre. The latter open into a bedroom. There is a great deal of furniture, all dating from the seventies: many and various chairs, sundry tables, a sofa, a canterbury, rugs, antimacassars, mats, wax flowers under glass domes, a gas chandelier, and a grand piano in walnut (with the keyboard towards the back wall). Over the mantelpiece an extensive enlarged photograph of a middle-aged man, in a rosewood frame. The window is not shown. Although most of the furniture is ugly, the general aspect of the crowded room is picturesque rather than ugly. It is bright-coloured, and has the distinction of a bygone style. TIME :E leven oclock at night. The chandelier is lighted. Mrs. Joicey and Louisa are talking together. A faint knocking is heard from the front door on the ground fioor.
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