CHARACTERS

SCENE

The action of the play takes place in the living room of Bay Cottage, the Frothinghams' summer place in Northern Maine.

TIME:  The present.

Copyright © 1935 by S. N. Behrman. Copyright © renewed 1963 by S. N. Behrman.

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