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A one-act play stages a small wartime domestic scene in which elderly charwomen gather for tea, trading gossip, jokes and minor rivalries while vivid stage detail evokes cramped rooms and everyday resourcefulness. Conversation and narration gradually reveal a concealed offence connected to the hostess, prompting shifts between humor, social judgment and compassion as the group negotiates loyalty, dignity and the blurred lines between respectability and survival.

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Title: The old lady shows her medals

Author: J. M. Barrie

Release date: March 18, 2023 [eBook #70315]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Hodder and Stoughton, 1921

Credits: Peter Becker, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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