CURTAIN.
[Illustration.]
Red papered chamber of an old-fashioned design.
Antimacassars on chairs. All sorts of china ornaments. Dogs,
vases, artificial flowers, lace curtains on window, books, boot
boxes, cushions with lace covers, fire lit. Gas brackets each
side of mantelpiece. Old pictures, velvet-framed views.
ACT IV
_The scene represents_ HOBSON'S _living-room, the door to
which was seen in Act I. From inside the room that door is now
seen to be at the left, the opposite wall having the fire-place
and another door to the house.
It is eight o'clock on a morning a year later.
In front of the fire-place is a horsehair arm-chair. Chairs to
match are at the table. There are coloured prints of Queen
Victoria and the Prince Consort on the walls on each side of the
door at the back, and a plain one of Lord Beaconsfield over the
fire-place. Antimacassars abound, and the decoration is quaintly
ugly. It is an overcrowded, "cosy" room_. HOBSON _is quite
contented with it, and doesn't realize that it is at present very
dirty.
There is probably a kitchen elsewhere, but_ TUBBY WADLOW _is
cooking bacon at the fire. He is simultaneously laying breakfast
for one on the table. At both proceedings he is a puzzled and
incompetent amateur.
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