Chapter 3

TABLEAU I. THE DOUBLE LIFE.

_The Stage represents a room in the Deacon’s house_, _furnished partly as a sitting-_, _partly as a bed-room_, _in the style of an easy burgess of about_ 1780. _C._, _a door_; _L. C._, _a second and smaller door_; _R. C._, _practicable window_; _L._, _alcove_, _supposed to contain bed_; _at the back_, _a clothes-press and a corner cupboard containing bottles_, _etc._ MARY BRODIE _at needlework_; OLD BRODIE, _a paralytic_, _in wheeled chair_, _at the fireside_, _L._