Loyalties

Loyalties

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Title: Loyalties (from the 5th Series Plays)
Author: John Galsworthy
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
LOYALTIES--5TH SERIES PLAYS ***
This etext was produced by David Widger
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the
file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making
an entire meal of them. D.W.]

LOYALTIES
From the 5th Series Plays
By John Galsworthy

PERSONS OF THE PLAY
In the Order of Appearance
CHARLES WINSOR.................. Owner of Meldon Court, near
Newmarket LADY ADELA...................... His Wife FERDINAND DE
LEVIS.............. Young, rich, and new TREISURE........................
Winsor's Butler GENERAL CANYNGE................. A Racing Oracle
MARGARET ORME................... A Society Girl CAPTAIN RONALD
DANDY, D.S.O..... Retired MABEL........................... His Wife
INSPECTOR DEDE.................. Of the County Constabulary
ROBERT.......................... Winsor's Footman A
CONSTABLE..................... Attendant on Dede AUGUSTUS
BOBBING................ A Clubman LORD ST ERTH.................... A Peer
of the Realm A FOOTMAN....................... Of the Club MAJOR
COLFORD................... A Brother Officer of Dancy's EDWARD
GRAVITER................. A Solicitor A YOUNG CLERK................... Of
Twisden & Graviter's GILMAN.......................... A Large Grocer
JACOB TWISDEN................... Senior Partner of Twisden & Graviter
RICARDOS........................ An Italian, in Wine

ACT I. SCENE I. CHARLES WINSOR's dressing-room at Meldon

Court, near Newmarket, of a night in early October. SCENE II. DE
LEVIS'S Bedroom at Meldon Court, a few minutes later.
ACT II. SCENE I. The Card Room of a London Club between four and
five in the afternoon, three weeks later. SCENE II. The Sitting-room of
the DANCYS' Flat, the following morning.
ACT III. SCENE I. OLD MR JACOB TWISDEN'S Room at
TWISDEN & GRAVITER'S in Lincoln's Inn Fields, at four in the
afternoon, three months later. SCENE II. The same, next morning at
half-past ten. SCENE III. The Sitting-room of the DANCYS' Flat, an
hour later.

ACT I
SCENE I
The dressing-room of CHARLES WINSOR, owner of Meldon Court,
near Newmarket; about eleven-thirty at night. The room has pale grey
walls, unadorned; the curtains are drawn over a window Back Left
Centre. A bed lies along the wall, Left. An open door, Right Back,
leads into LADY ADELA's bedroom; a door, Right Forward, into a
long corridor, on to which abut rooms in a row, the whole length of the
house's left wing. WINSOR's dressing-table, with a light over it, is
Stage Right of the curtained window. Pyjamas are laid out on the bed,
which is turned back. Slippers are handy, and all the usual gear of a
well-appointed bed-dressing-room. CHARLES WINSOR, a tall, fair,
good-looking man about thirty-eight, is taking off a smoking jacket.
WINSOR. Hallo! Adela!
V. OF LADY A. [From her bedroom] Hallo!
WINSOR. In bed?
V. OF LADY A. No.
She appears in the doorway in under-garment and a wrapper. She, too,
is fair, about thirty-five, rather delicious, and suggestive of porcelain.
WINSOR. Win at Bridge?
LADY A. No fear.
WINSOR. Who did?
LADY A. Lord St Erth and Ferdy De Levis.
WINSOR. That young man has too much luck--the young bounder won
two races to-day; and he's as rich as Croesus.
LADY A. Oh! Charlie, he did look so exactly as if he'd sold me a

carpet when I was paying him.
WINSOR. [Changing into slippers] His father did sell carpets,
wholesale, in the City.
LADY A. Really? And you say I haven't intuition! [With a finger on
her lips] Morison's in there.
WINSOR. [Motioning towards the door, which she shuts] Ronny
Dancy took a tenner off him, anyway, before dinner.
LADY A. No! How?
WINSOR. Standing jump on to a bookcase four feet high. De Levis had
to pay up, and sneered at him for making money by