I am grateful to Hesba Stretton, the authoress of Jessica’s First Prayer, for permission to use the title of one of her stories for this play....

It is not the fault of our doctors that the medical service of the community, as at present provided for, is a murderous absurdity. That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the...

Redpenny Emmy Sir Colenso Ridgeon Schutzmacher Sir Patrick Cullen Cutler Walpole Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington Dr. Blenkinsop Mrs. Jennifer Dubedat Louis Dudebat A hotel maid A waiter The Newspaper M...

On the 15th June 1903, in the early forenoon, a medical student, surname Redpenny, Christian name unknown and of no importance, sits at work in a doctor’s consulting-room. He devils for the doctor by ...

After dinner on the terrace at the Star and Garter, Richmond. Cloudless summer night; nothing disturbs the stillness except from time to time the long trajectory of a distant train and the measured cl...

In Dubedat’s studio. Viewed from the large window the outer door is in the wall on the left at the near end. The door leading to the inner rooms is in the opposite wall, at the far end. The facing wal...

The studio. The easel is pushed back to the wall. Cardinal Death, holding his scythe and hourglass like a sceptre and globe, sits on the throne. On the hatstand hang the hats of Sir Patrick and Bloomf...

One of the smaller Bond Street Picture Galleries. The entrance is from a picture shop. Nearly in the middle of the gallery there is a writing-table, at which the Secretary, fashionably dressed, sits w...