, for the fine, upright,
loyal creature that you are. I love you for loving Jack; and it is Jack's
great quality in my eyes that he has been able to inspire such love. And,
my dear friend, let us not be ashamed, we two, but only very proud, and
very happy. We shall go our ways, and do our duty; but we shall never
forget this talk we have had to-night.

SIR GEOFFREY. [_Gently._] I am beginning to understand....

LADY TORMINSTER. You will be less lonely in future ... and I no longer
afraid of the stars.... Brave heart--oh, brave little heart that I for a
moment have held in my hands!

SIR GEOFFREY. [_With a passionate movement towards her._] Gertrude!

LADY TORMINSTER. [_Lifting a finger._] No--stay where you are.... Those
are the first rays of dawn--I must go.... Good-bye. We have no need to
shake hands, you and I.... Ah, Geoffrey--good-bye!

[_She goes swiftly, and closes the door. He bends his head, and
remains standing, motionless, by the table._

CURTAIN

THE BRACELET

A PLAY IN ONE ACT

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

HARVEY WESTERN
HIS HONOUR JUDGE BANKET
MARTIN
WILLIAM
MRS. WESTERN
MRS. BANKET
MISS FARREN
SMITHERS

TIME--_The present_

_Produced at
the Liverpool
Repertory Theatre
on Feb. 26, 1912_

THE BRACELET

_The dining-room in an upper middle-class house near the Park. It
is furnished in the conventional modern style, soberly and
without imagination. The room is on the ground floor, facing the
street, the door is to the right, and leads into the hall. To the
left of this door is a sideboard, glittering with silver. Three
tall windows, at the back heavily curtained; between them hang
two or three family portraits. The table, on which there is the
usual debris of a meal that is over--coffee-cups,
liqueur-glasses, etc.--has been laid for four persons, and their
four chairs are still around it. The fireplace, with its rather
crude and ambitious mantelpiece, is in the centre of the left
wall; and uncomfortable-looking heavy armchairs are on each side
of it. On the mantelpiece are a marble clock and a few bits of
china. In the angle formed at the left side is a small Queen Anne
writing-table, open. To the right of the room is a large sofa.
The floor is heavily carpeted, and there are many rugs scattered
about._

_When the curtain rises, the room is in darkness._ WILLIAM, _the