Chapter 5

TABLEAU I

THE DOUBLE LIFE

_The Stage represents a room in the Deacon's house, furnished partly as a sitting-, partly as a bedroom, in the style of an easy burgess of about 1780. C., a door; L.C., 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._