Excerpt from A Play in Three Acts, With a Prologue and an Epilogue
It is night. The lamp on the desk is turned on and there is a cheerful wood fire burning. In his arm-chair before the fire sits Bishop Armstrong, a charming, gentle, humorous old man, over seventy years old. At the right, Suzette, a pretty young girl of seventeen, is sitting reading a newspaper.
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The religious views and sexual conventions presented are rather Victorian. There is a great deal of Italian, some French, and a smattering of German, especially in Act 3 of this theatrical play.