Characters

LAVINIA MANNON

ORIN, her brother

PETER NILES

HAZEL, his sister

SETH

AMOS AMES

CHARACTERS

BRIGADIER-GENERAL EZRA MANNON

CHRISTINE, his wife

LAVINIA, their daughter

The action of the trilogy, with the exception of an act of the second play, takes place in or immediately outside the Mannon residence, on the outskirts of one of the smaller New-England seaport towns.

A special curtain shows the house as seen from the street. From this, in each play, one comes to the exterior of the house in the opening act and enters it in the following act.

To Carlotta   my wife

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