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The play takes place in the upstairs living room of Dr. Talley's office residence in an old brownstone house in the East Sixties in New York City. The time is the present—late spring.

Copyright © 1940, 1941 by S. N. Behrman. Copyright © renewed 1967, 1968 by S. N. Behrman.

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