SCENE--Same as Act One, Scene One--exterior of the house. It is in the late afternoon of a day three days later.

SCENE--Same as Act One, Scene Two--the sitting-room. The lamp on the table is lighted but turned low. Two candles are burning on the mantel over the fireplace at right, shedding their flickering light on the portrait of Abe Mannon above, and of the other Mannons on the walls on each side of him.

SCENE--Same as Act Three of "The Hunted"--Ezra Mannon's study--on an evening a month later. The shutters of the windows are closed. Candles on the mantel above the fireplace light up the portrait of Ezra Mannon in his judge's robes. Orin is sitting in his father's chair at left of table, writing by the light of a lamp. A small pile of manuscript is stacked by his right hand.

Same as Act Two of "The Hunted"--The sitting-room in the Mannon house. Peter has lighted two candles on the mantel and put the lantern on the table at front. In this dim, spotty light the room is full of shadows. It has the dead appearance of a room long shut up, and the covered furniture has a ghostly look.

Exterior of the Mannon house (as in the two preceding plays) on an evening of a clear day in summer a year later. It is shortly after sunset but the afterglow in the sky still bathes the white temple portico in a crimson light. The columns cast black bars of shadow on the wall behind them.

Characters

LAVINIA MANNON

ORIN, her brother

PETER NILES

HAZEL, his sister

SETH

AMOS AMES