PHILIP (getting up). My dear uncle, this is holiday. Being in
London is holiday. Buying an evening paper--wearing a waistcoat
again--running after a bus--anything--it's all holiday.
JAMES. All right, then, come along with me now, and I'll introduce
you to Mr. Bamford.
PHILIP. Right. Who's he?
JAMES. Our manager. A little stiff, but a very good fellow. He'll
be delighted to hear that you are coming into the firm.
PHILIP (smiling). Perhaps I'd better bring my revolver, in case he
isn't.
JAMES (laughing with forced heartiness as they go together to the
door). Ha, ha! A good joke that! Ha, ha, ha! A good joke--but only
a joke, of course. Ha, ha! He, he, he!
[PHILIP goes out. JAMES, following him, turns at the door, and
looks round the room in a bewildered way. Was it a dream, or wasn't
it? He will never be quite certain.]
BELINDA
An April Folly in Three Acts
CHARACTERS
BELINDA TREMAYNE.
DELIA (her daughter).
HAROLD BAXTER.
CLAUDE DEVENISH.
JOHN TREMAYNE.
BETTY.
The action takes place in Belinda's country-house in Devonshire at
the end of April.
This play was first produced by Mr. Dion Boucicault at the New
Theatre, London, on April 8, 1918, with the following cast:
Belinda Tremayne--IRENE VANBRUGH.
Delia--ISOBEL ELSOM.
Harold Baxter--DION BOUCICAULT.
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