SIR WILLIAM BEAUCHAMP, BART. (43).
LADY FLORENCE BEAUCHAMP (39).
KATE DUGDALE (18).
MR. JAMES DUGDALE (23).
PORTER, _the Lady's-maid_ (30).
SCENE: _A country drawing-room. A French window opening on to a flower
garden at the back of the stage. Doors right and left. A sofa,
arm-chairs, smaller chairs, etc._
_At the rise of the curtain, JEM and KITTY are discovered sitting with
their backs to one another, evidently sulking. JEM looks round every now
and then, trying to catch his wife's eye, and she studiously avoids his
glance. At length their eyes meet._
JEM (_rises_): No! I tell you I can't stand it!
KITTY: And why not? I always went out with the guns at home.
JEM: "At home" and your husband's house are two very different places.
KITTY: So I find!
JEM: And I have told you over and over again I detest to see any
woman--more especially a girl of eighteen, like yourself--tramping over
the moors in gaiters, and a skirt by a long way too short!
KITTY: Perhaps, with your old-maidish ideas, you would like to see me
taking my walks abroad with a train as long as my Court frock!
JEM: Perversity!