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第1章 Persons

AMY, DOWAGER LADY MONCHENSEY

IVY, VIOLET, and AGATHA, her younger sisters

COL. THE HON. GERALD PIPER, and THE HON. CHARLES PIPER, brothers of her deceased husband

MARY, daughter of a deceased cousin of Lady Monchensey

DENMAN, a parlourmaid

HARRY, LORD MONCHENSEY, Amy's eldest son

DOWNING, his servant and chauffeur

DR. WARBURTON

SERGEANT WINCHELL

THE EUMENIDES

The scene is laid in a country house in the

North of England

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