e shoulders of the small group of men like
him.

Mrs. Starkweather. Of the helpless, comfortably stout, elderly
type. She has not followed her husband in his moral evolution.
She is the creature of old customs, old prejudices, old New
England ethics. She is rather confused by the modern rush of
life.

Connie Starkweather. Margaret's younger sister, twenty years old.
She is nothing that Margaret is, and everything that Margaret
is not. No essential evil in her, but has no mind of her
own--hopelessly a creature of convention. Gay, laughing, healthy,
buxom--a natural product of her care-free environment.

Feux Dobleman. Private secretary to Anthony Starkweather. A young
man of correct social deportment, thoroughly and in all
things just the sort of private secretary a man like Anthony
Starkweather would have. He is a weak-souled creature, timorous,
almost effeminate.

Linda Davis. Maid to Margaret. A young woman of twenty-five or
so, blond, Scandinavian, though American-born. A cold woman,
almost featureless because of her long years of training, but
with a hot heart deep down, and characterized by an intense
devotion to her mistress. Wild horses could drag nothing from her
where her mistress is concerned.

Junus Rutland. Having no strong features about him, the type
realizes itself.

John Gifford. A labor agitator. A man of the people, rough-hewn,
narrow as a labor-leader may well be, earnest and sincere. He is
a proper, better type of labor-leader.

Matsu Sakari. Secretary of Japanese Embassy. He is the perfection
of politeness and talks classical book-English. He bows a great
deal.

Dolores Ortega. Wife of Peruvian Minister; bright and
vivacious, and uses her hands a great deal as she talks, in the
Latin-American fashion.

Senator Dowsett. Fifty years of age; well preserved.

Mrs. Dowsett. Stout and middle-aged.

ACT I

A ROOM IN THE HOUSE OF SENATOR CHALMERS

Scene. _In Senator Chalmers' home. It is four o'clock in the
afternoon, in a modern living room with appropriate furnishings.
In particular, in front, on left, a table prepared for the
serving of tea, all excepting the tea urn itself. At rear, right
of center, is main entrance to the room. Also, doorways at sides,
on left and right. Curtain discloses Chalmers and Hubbard seated
loungingly at the right front._

{Hubbard}

(_After an apparent pause for cogitation._) I can't understand why
an old wheel-horse like Elsworth should kick