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A four-act farce dramatizes the comic unraveling of a prominent government minister’s household after revelations of gambling debts and private embarrassments. Family members, social acquaintances and opportunistic outsiders become entangled in misunderstandings and misplaced sentiment, moving action from London drawing-rooms to a country castle. Scenes blend ironic pathos and exaggerated feeling to satirize pretension and social manners, concluding with reconciliations and a public dance that restores appearances while exposing characters’ foibles.
The use of both “Lady T.” and “Lady T”; “good-by” and “good-bye” is as per the original.
Typographic errors have been corrected as follows:
On page 135: “[Outside.] Hi, hi! Come here! hi!”—had “Ouiside”.
Punctuation errors and mismatched brackets have been corrected without note.