The Honeymoon: A comedy in three acts

Chapter 6: NOTES ON CHARACTERS IN ACT II

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A newly married couple spend their honeymoon at a small seaside hotel, and the comedy examines the tensions between impulsive passion and deliberate reserve as personal mannerisms, domestic routines, and family expectations collide. Scenes alternate intimate exchanges with visits from relatives and acquaintances, notably a celebrated novelist, her husband, and the couple's brothers, producing misunderstandings, social satire, and farcical complications. The three-act structure foregrounds character sketches and witty observations on marriage, fame, and manners.

NOTES ON CHARACTERS IN ACT II

The Bishop of Chelmsford. Celibate. The typical Bishop who, while the bent of his mind is reactionary, convinces himself that he is exceedingly modern, and moving with the rapid times. No real intellectual quality, but energetic and self-adaptive.

Mr. Frampington. A bland young man, with perfect manners and perfect sangfroid. A single-minded person of immense intellectual and spiritual originality. To himself he does not seem at all peculiar, but merely natural.

Cuthbert. Just a plain modern butler. I particularly do not want this trifling part to be embroidered by the conventional butler "business." If any genuine realistic butler "business" can be brought into it, well and good.