i h's International Copyrighted (in Hnohind, her Colonies, and the United States) Edition of ^ the Works of the Best Authors. /\ , ISTo. 79. I A Lesson in Harmony ^ BY k n ^ I ALFRED AUSTIN I g Poet Laureate g I " I M 2?: M Copyright, 1904, by Samuel French h & . ]^ ^ CAUTION : -Professionals and Amateurs are hereby notified M that this play is fully copyrighted under the existing; laws ^ & of the United States Qovernment, and nobody is allowed ^ Sf to do this play without first having obtained permission of 1» 1^ Samuel French, 24 West 22d Street, New York City, U. S. A. K I i ^? M 2*. SAMUEL FRENCH PUBLISHER 24 W. 22 D Street n g PRICE 25 CENTS g K New York London 5^ SAMUEL FRENCH, Ltd. S 26 Southampton St. ^ Strand, London, VV. C. M '^FRENCH'S STANDARD DRAMA Price 15 Cents each.— Bound Volumes $1.25. VOL. L I Ion t Faclo 5 The Lady of Lyon* 4 RichehfU I The Wife 6 Th« Hoiieyiiioon T Th« School for Scandal • Mouey VOL. IL 9 The Stranger 10 Grandlather Whitehead Jl Richard HI 15 Love't Sacrific* 13 The Gamester 14 A Cure for the Heartache 16 The Hunchback 16 Don Caesar de Boian VOL. IIL 17 The Poor Gentleman 18 Hamlet 19 Charles II 90 Venice Preserved tl Pizarro »I The Lore Chasf S8 Othello 94 Lend me Fire Shilling* VOL. IV. 95 VIrglnim 96 King of the Commons 97 London Assurance 98 The Rent Day 99 Two Gentlenit-n of Verona 50 The Jealous Wife 51 The RiraU 82 Perfection VOL. V. tl>ebts 88 A New Way to Pay Old 84 Look Before You Leap 8» KiBg John 86 NerTOui Man 87 Damon and Pythias S8 Clandestine Marriage 29 William Tell 40 Day after the Wedding VOL. VL 41 Speed the Plough 49 Romeo and Juliet 43 Feudal Times 44 Charles the Twelfth 45 The Bride 46 The Follies of a Night 47 Iron Chest [Fair Lady 48 Faint Heart Never Wou VOL. YII. 49 Road to Ruin to Macbeth II Temper 89 Eradne 88 Bertram 84 The Duenna t» Much Ado About Nothing 86 The Critie VOL. VIII. 17 The Apostate 88 Twelfth Night 89 Brutus 80 Stmpson & Co •1 Merchant of Venice «9 Old Heads* Young Hearts 83 Meuntaineers [ringe 84 Three Weeks after Mar- VOL. IX. 85 Love 86 A* Ton Like It 87 The Elder Brother 88 Werner 69 Gisippu* TO Town and Countrj" f 1 King Lear 19 Blue Devils VOL. X. « Henry VIII 94 Married and Single 98 Henrv IV 96 Paul TPry 97 Guy Mannering 98 Sweethearts and Wirt* 9f Serious Family •0 Sue Stocps to Conquer VOL. XL 81 Julius Csesar 82 Vicar of Wakefield 83 Leap Year 84 The Catspaw 85 The Passing Cloud 86 Drunkard 87 Rob Roy 88 George Barnwell VOL. XU. 89 Ingomar 90 Sketches In India 91 Two Friends 9 J Jane Shore 93 Corsican Brothers 94 Mind yoiir own Busln 95 Writing on the Wall 96 Heir at Law VOL. XIIL 97 Soldier's Daughter 9S Douglas 99 Marco Spada 100 Nature's Nobleman 101 Sardanapalus 102 Civilisation 103 The Robbers 104 Katharine and PetrucMo VOL. XIV. 105 Game of Love 106 Midsummer Night's 107 Ernestine [Dream Rag Picker of Paris 109 Flying Dutchman 110 Hypocrite 111 Therese 12 La Tour de Nesle VOL. XV. 113 Ireland As It Is 114 Sea of Ice 115 Seven Clerks 16 Game of Life 117 Forty Thieves 118 Bryan Borolhme 19 Romance and Reality 120 Ugolino VOL. XVL 121 The Tempest l«a The Pilot 123 Carpenter of Rouen lv4 King's Rival 125 Little Treasure 26 Dombey and Son 127 Parents and Guardians 128 Jewess VOL. XVII. ' 29 Camilla 130 Married Life Wen lock of Wenlock 132 Rose of Ettrickvale 133 David Copperfield 134 Aline, or the Rose of 35 Pauline [Killarney 136 Jane Eyre VOL. XVIII. 137 Nlifht and Morning ■"' jEthiop 139 Three Guardsmen 140 Tom Cringle 141 Henriette, the Forsaken Eustache Baudin 143 Ernest Maltraver* 144 Bold Dragoons VOL. XIX. 145 Dred, or the Dismal [Swamp 146 Last Days of Pompeii 147 Esmeralda 148 Peter VVilklns 149 Ben the Boatswain 150 Jonathan Bradford 151 Retribution 152 Minerall VOL. 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XX VL 201 Adrienne the Actress 202 Undine 203 Jesse Brown 204 Asmodeus 205 Marmons 206 Blanche of Brandywlne 207 V-ola 208 Deseret Deserted VOL. XXVII. 209 Americans in Paris 210 Victorine 211 Wizard of the Wave 212 Castle Spectre 213 Horse-shoe Robinson 214 Armand, Mrs. Mowatt 215 Fashion, Mrs. Mowatt 216 Glance at New York VOL. XXVIIL 217 Inconstant 218 Uncle Tom's Cabin 219 Guide to the Stage 220 Ve'eran 221 Miller of New Jersey 222 Dork Hour before Dawn 223 Midsum'rNight'sDreani [Laura Keene's Edition 224 Art and Artifice VOL. XXIX. 225 Poor Young Man 226 Ossawattomie Brown 227 Pope of Rome 228 Oliver Twist 2'29 Pauvretta 230 Man in the Iron Mask 231 Knight of Arva 232 Moll Pitcher VOL. XXX. 233 Black Eyed Susan 234 Satan in Paris 235 Rosina Meadows [ess 236 West End, or Irish Heir- 237 Six Dagrees of Crime 238 The Lady and the Devil 239 Avenger, or Moor of Sici- 240 Masks and Faces , [ly VOL. XXXL 241 Merry Wives of Windsor 242 Mary's Birthday 243 Shandy Maguire 244 Wild Oats 245 Michael Erie 46 Idiot Witness 247 Willow Copse 248 People's Lawyer VOL. XXXIL 249 The Boy Martyr* 250 Lucretia Borgia 251 Surgeon of Paris 252 Patrician's Daughter 253 Shoemaker of Toulouse 254 Momentous Question 255 Love and Loyalty 256 Robber's Wife VOL. XXXIIL 257 Dumb Girl of Genoa Wreck Ashore 259 Clari Rural Felicity 261 Wallace 262 Madelaine 263 The Fireman 264 Grist to the Mill VOL. XXXIV. 65 Two Loves and a Life 266 Annie Blake 267 Steward Captain Kyd Nick of the Wood* 270 Marble Heart Second Lore 272 Dream at Sea Vol. XXXV. 273 Breach of Promise 274 Review 275 Lady of the Lake 276 Still Water Run* Deep 277 The Scholar 278 Helping Hands 279 Faust and Marguerite 280 Last Man VOL. xxxvr. 381 Belle's Stratagem 282 Old and Young 283 RaflFaella 284 Ruth Oakley 285 British Slave 286 A Life's Ransom 287 Giralda 28S Time Tries All VOL. XXXVII. 289 Ella Rosenburg 290 Warlock of the Glen 291 Zelina 292 Beatrice 293 Neighbor Jackwood 294 Wonder 296 Robert Emmet 296 Green Bushes VOL. XXXVIIL 297 Flowers of the Forest 298 A Bachelor of Arts 299 The Midnight Banquet 300 Husband of an Hour 801 Love's Labor Lost 302 Naiad Queen 303 Caprice 304 Cradle of Liberty VOL. XXXIX. 305 The Lost Ship 306 Country Squire 307 Fraud and jts Victims 308 Putnam 309 King and Deserter 310 La Fiammina 311 A Hard Struggle 312 Gwinnette Vaughan VOL. XL. 313 The Love Knot [Judge SULavater, or Not a Bad 315 The Noble Heart 316 torlolanus 317 The Winter's Tale 318 Eveleen Wilson 319 Ivanhoe 320 Jonathan !n England {French's Standard Drama Continued on ^d page of Cover.) SAMUEL FRENCH. 26 West sad Street. New York City. New and Explicit Des';riptiYe Catalogue Mailed Free on Request. LESSON IN HARMONY Br ALFRED AUSTIN Poet Laureate Copyright, 1904, by Samuel French CAUTION :— Professionals and Amateurs are hereby notified that this play is fully copyrighted under the existing laws of the United States Government, and nobody is allowed to do this play w^ithout first having obtained permission of Samuel French, 24 'West 22d St., New York City, U. S. A. New Yobk: SAMUEL FRENCH, PUBLISHER, 26 WEST 22nd STREET. London : SAIVIUEL FRENCH, Ltd., 26 Southampton St., Strand, London, W. C. l^li-of^ I <\oi- LIBRARY of OONGBESS Two Copies ReceivBd NOV 28 1904 , Copyrient Entry CUSS /jb XXq. Noi Copyright, 1904, By SAMUEL FRENCH A LESSON IN HARMONY. Produced at the Garrick Theatre on Thursday, June i6th, 1904, with the following cast: Phil. Leslie, In the city Mr. David Domville Ida Leslie, His wife Miss Jessie Bateman Otho Hazlewood, His friend Mr. Arthur Bourchier Scene. — A suburban garden near London. Time. — To-day. A LESSON IN HARMONY. Scene. — Villa and garden at Maplehursf. Time. — lo a. m. on a summer morning. (Ida discovered syringing a bed of roses.) IDA LESLIE. (Putting down the syringe to cut a rosebud zvith a pair of garden scissors hanging from her zvaist. As she does so a letter falls, unobserved by herself, out of the bosom of her dress, into the Uower bed.) What a beauty! That will put Phil in a good hu- mour, if anything will. When we were engaged he used to give me roses. But / was not gathered then ! A-h ! PHIL. LESLIE. (Calling from inside the house.) I must be off, Ida ; where are you ? IDA LESLIE. Here, Phil, here, in the garden. PHIL. LESLIE. (Coming out of the house dressed to go to town.) Just one kiss (pause), and I must start. (Going to gate.) I want to catch the 10.15 if I can. 5 6 A LESSON IN HARMONY. IDA LESLIE. ' Yes, but just one rose. PHIL. LESLIE. (Intently reading Financial Times.) Rose }i. IDA LESLIE. Yes, but do look at it, it's a Fellenberg. PHIL. LESLIE. Fell i^. IDA LESLIE. (Putting it in his coat.) Is it not a love? PHIL. LESLIE. (A little impatiently.) Beautiful, beautiful! But I am in a great hurry this morning. IDA LESLIE. Husbands always are. PHIL. LESLIE. So are lovers, they say, don't they? IDA LESLIE. Yes , but lovers are in a hurry to get to one, husbands to get away from one. I may engage the maid, may I not ? How nice to have one, all to my- self ! It will save me such a lot of money. I shall be able to dress ever so much more cheaply. PHIL. LESLIE. I am afraid I must ask you to wait a little. A LESSON IN HARMONY. IDA LESLIE. Oh, Phil ! You promised you PHIL. LESLIE. Things in the city are so — so very uncertain just now. IDA LESLIE. Very well, I will wait. But you'll order that Vic- toria to-day, won't you? Or shall / run up and see to it? PHIL. LESLIE. Do be patient, dear, please, till things mend. (Ida moves L.) And please practise that Lesson in Har- mony to-day, won't you? IDA LESLIE. {With a gesture of impatience.) Bother! 1 never set my heart on anything, but {She moves towards the house R.) PHIL. LESLIE. I shall have to run to catch the train. Don't for- get about sending my white waistcoats to the wash. {Goes out of gate.) IDA LESLIE. {Going into house.) All right. PHIL. LESLIE. {Hurrying hack and turning round calls out.) Ida! Ida! Ida! Mind, dear, you speak to the g A LESSON IN HARMONY. butcher about hanging his meat longer. It was so beastly tough last night. IDA LESLIE. Was it? (From off R.) PHIL. LESLIE. Yes, that it was! (He moves toward gate and Ida goes into the house.) (Otho falls out of hammock.) PHIL. LESLIE. What's that? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Only me. PHIL. LESLIE. I thought it was an earthquake. (Helps Otho off^ ground.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Are you off? PHIL. LESLIE. Yes! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Then good-bye, old fellow ; for I must leave you to-day. PHIL. LESLIE. Please don't go to-day. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I'm afraid I must. A LESSON IN HARMONY. PHIL. LESLIE. I want you particularly to stay till to-morrow. {Looking at his watch.) I can't catch the 10.15 now. Well, the 10.30 must do. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. It's all right about Gwen. Her father is quite sat- isfied, and we are to be married in September. Isn't it a good one of her? (Shozving a photograph.) PHIL. LESLIE. Charming ! Lucky man ! But don't go to-day. Ida's low and hipped, and I want you to stay and amuse her. Besides you promised to help me with that new bin of Lafitte. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. That settles it. I'll stay. How are things in the city? (Sits in hammock.) PHIL. LESLIE. Much better. The anxiety is not over yet, but we shall know to-day. I shall just catch the 10.30 going quietly. Mind you cheer up Ida. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Trust me! (Waving his hand, as Phil goes through gate and off R.) Good luck to you, old man. (Exit Phil.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. (Alone.) Dear old Phil ! Thinks of nothing but 10 A LESSON IN HARMONY. making money for his pretty little wife. Well, what better can a man do? / shall. (Taking out the photograph and kissing it.) This is a charming place! It's difficult to believe it's so near town. Thank Heaven, a playwright can live anywhere, and Gwen and I will live — well, nowhere ; in fact, any- where. (Putting back the photograph.) Bless her! And we'll have still better roses than these ! ( Going to the Hozver bed dozvn R. zvhere Ida plucked the rosebud, and stooping to pick up a piece of paper.) And we won't have pieces of paper lying in the flower beds. Verses! Better to love and lose ; To worship from head to shoes ; I sigh and I weep and I moan ; For thou art my unknown known. Nothing less! And what rubbish! What! To Ida! From L. G. I thought I knew the writing. That fatuous young philanderer, Sir Lothario Great- rex ! Makes love to every woman that will let him. I wonder how this got into the flower bed. She was syringing the roses just now. It looks as though (Picks up syringe.) (Ida comes out of the house.) IDA LESLIE. Oh, how kind of you, Mr. Hazlewood, to syringe my roses. I have been busy seeing to Phil's white waistcoats. He's so particular, and makes such a fuss about them ! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Husbands do. They're such brutes. A LESSON IN HARMONY. n IDA LESLIE. I don't say that; but men are rather tiresome, sometimes, about trifles — I mean, when they are married. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Exactly. What can it matter whether waistcoats are clean or dirty? IDA LESLIE. Oh! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I mean, " when we are married " ? IDA LESLIE. {Comes L. C.) And I had to see the butcher, too, for Phil grumbles about the meat. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I say, don't you think I should make a fine gar- dener ? IDA LESLIE. Did you think the saddle of mutton was tough last night ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Tough ! Why, it might have been lamb. It was as tender as — well, as men are, before they are mar- ried. I am sure it was not married mutton. IDA LESLIE. Why? 12 A LESSON IN HARMONY. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Because It melted like — like a man, before he is married. IDA LESLIE. You are laughing at me. {Sits C.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Upon my word, Mrs. Leslie, I never was more serious in my life. It was excellent. {He sits down R. of her on the stone seat of a sundial.) IDA LESLIE. I wonder what it is makes men so different, after marriage, from what they were before ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I can't say, you see, never having been married. IDA LESLIE. But you agree with me, don't you? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Of course I agree with you — as I am not mar- ried. If I were, I suppose I should disagree with you. IDA LESLIE. T sometimes think marriage is a dreadful mis- take. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Of course it is. It is the oldest form of error. Unfortunately, too, it is the most persistent, for we A LESSON IN HARMONY. 13 seem quite incapable of getting rid of it. Man has changed his reHgion several times ; no form of phi- losophy lasts more than a generation, and, as for political institutions, we alter them every session. But though everybody, at least everybody who is sensible and charming, concurs in condemning mar- riage, no one seems able to teach us how to get rid of it. IDA LESLIE. How true ! And how cleverly you put it. I wish I could talk like you. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. So you would, my dear lady, if you were not mar- ried. Marriage begins by enslaving the body, and ends by subjecting the mind. No married person can feel, think, or act freely. IDA LESLIE. (Sighing.) I am sure / cannot. I often wonder why people marry at all — men at least. A woman must, I suppose. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Well, scarcely ; unless a man must too. It re- quires two musts. IDA LESLIE. It is all must, in marriage. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Perhaps that is the reason why it so soon grows musty. IDA LESLIE. (After impatiently gathering some honeysuckle, 14 A LESSON IN HARMONY. and returning to her seat near Otho, ivho has not moved. ) Shall you ever marry, Mr. Hazlewood ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I? After what I have just said? Marriage is the makeshift of monotonous minds, the last resource of persons who have exhausted every form of pleasure, and are not such fools as to believe in the discovery of a new one. But it is as well to reserve something for one's old age. Some people reserve austere vir- tue as the consolation of that melancholy period; others, a cellar of old port, and a chest of fine cigars. I shall keep marriage in reserve as the mitigation of that evil day. When I have no longer a leg to stand on I shall lie down and propose — to my house- keeper. (Rise.) IDA LESLIE. I'm afraid you're very naughty, Mr. Hazlewood. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Naughty ? I make hay while the sun shines. IDA LESLIE. Does it shine very much ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Fairly well ; for an austere climate like ours. IDA LESLIE. (Sighing.) I wish I were a man! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Would you make hay? It does not require to be a man to do that. (She looks at him.) All flesh A LESSON IN HARMONY. 15 is grass ; and therefore make hay of it. Many women seem to think so. IDA LESLIE. Now, you are cynical. {Ida rises and plucks a curled leaf off one of the roses. Otho remains seated.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. {Aside — taking the photograph from his pocket, and looking at it.) Gwen, darhng, may I give this dear, silly, little woman a good lesson? May I, Gwen? {Puts back the photograph.) Yes, I think so. She sadly needs it. {Goes up to her.) IDA LESLIE. Tell me, Mr. Hazlewood, what is your idea of hap- piness ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. {Up C.) Loving, and being loved. IDA LESLIE. Are you incapable of loving? {Moves down.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. T? How can you ask such a question? {Fol- lows her.) IDA LESLIE. Then, I am sure you are loved. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. By whom? l6 A LESSON IN HARMONY. IDA LESLIE. Dear Mr. Hazlewood, will you tell me who it is? I promise not to betray you. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I am sure you won't. IDA LESLIE. Who is it then ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Why do you want to know? IDA LESLIE. A woman's curiosity. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Fatal curiosity. IDA LESLIE. Fatal? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Often. IDA LESLIE. Why fatal? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. (Raising his eyes, looking at her earnestly, and then dropping them.) Can't you guess? IDA LESLIE. I? (A pause.) A LESSON IN HARMONY. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. 17 (Leaning towards her.) Forgive me! Did you suspect I was in love? IDA LESLIE. How should I? I don't know anybody so — clever — or so — so nice. Why, see ! I was miser- able this morning, and you have brightened me up, interested me, and made me feel quite happy. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Then, since you are happy, may I tell you what would make me so? IDA LESLIE. Oh, do! I should so like to hear it. (Sits C.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. {Leaning over her.) Loving and being loved by one you love — that is my ideal, my dream of hap- piness. But the surroundings should be in harmony with one's feelings. The frame should be worthy of the picture ; and one fair and fascinating should be encompassed by all that is fascinating and fair. If you ask me what I long for at this moment, it is that I should be transported into some distant land of be- witching beauty, blessed with blue skies, blue seas, blue mountains, and whose only denizens, save two voyaging selves, were every delicious scent, and every dulcet sound. IDA LESLIE. {Sighing deeply.) A-h ! How delightful ! Too delightful for words! Too heavenly for real life. l8 A LESSON IN HARMONY. (Laying her hand on his arm.) But go on! Do go on ! I love to hear you. (Enter Servant from house.) SERVANT. Sir Lothario Greatrex. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I'll stroll round the garden. IDA LESLIE. No. (To Servant.) Tell Sir Lothario I am not at home. (Exit Servant into house.) (Ida contin/iies to walk among the flower beds; Otho joins her.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. You're very fond of this little place, aren't you ? IDA LESLIE. Fairly so. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Only fairly. IDA LESLIE. Do you want me to tell the truth? (Moves to sundial.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Please. IDA LESLIE. Sometimes I like it. A LESSON IN HARMONY. 19 OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Sometimes ! IDA LESLIE. Don't they say that prisoners, after an outburst of revolt, play with their chains ! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I've heard so. Most men, when they have saved a little money, build themselves a prison, in the shape of a house, too costly for them to go away from, and then provide themselves with the gaoler. IDA LESLIE. In the shape of a wife ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Precisely; and they have to go through life to- gether, to dinners, to theatres, to the seaside — chained to each other like convicts. IDA LESLIE. (Impatienth.) It is just like that. (Crosses to L.) Oh! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. A friend of mine said rather a good thing the other day. He doesn't obect to being married, but he objected to being always married. IDA LESLIE. What did he mean ? # OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Well, I suppose he meant that he'd like to loosen so A LESSON IN HARMONY. the coupling chain for a Httle, but not to snap it al- together, eh? That's about it, isn't it? IDA LESLIE. (Picking a flower impatiently.) I don't know what I should like. {Turning to him.) I wish you would tell me. (Boy rings bell at gate.) (Enter Boy with note which he gives to Otho and exits. ) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. But . (Looking at the note and reading it intently, and saying significantly, zvhile doing so, *' Um! Um!") It's Phil's writing. (Ida sits on hammock.) Supposing, my dear Mrs. Leslie, you had to give up your house, your garden, and every- thing you now have, would you not mind? (He puts letter in his pocket.) IDA LESLIE. It depends. I scarcely think any woman minds leaving her house, no matter how nice it is, for one that is still nicer. I fear we are rather fond of — well, pretty things. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Naturally. So are men. Every nice woman is compounded, in equal proportions, of the spiritual and the material, and has the right to expect that romance shall be elegant, and passion not attended with discomfort. Just as no man makes love to a woman in curl papers, so no woman would run away with a man in his slippers. But — (again looking at the letter) supposing you had to leave your nice A LESSON IN HARMONY. 21 house, and charming garden, for one less nice and less charming, you would mind that, wouldn't you ? IDA LESLIE. Well, naturally. But there is no danger of that, I think. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I hope not. (Looking at her compassionately.) IDA LESLIE. (Alarmed.) Surely there is no such danger, is there? (Seising hold of his ami.) That note! It is my husband's writing! (He puts the letter be- hind him.) Is anything wrong? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Mrs. Leslie, you know things have been very un- settled and uncertain, in the city, of late. IDA LESLIE. Phil is ruined I Tell me the truth. Tell me, at once. Let me know the worst. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Gently, my dear lady. Let me beg you not to upset yourself. IDA LESLIE. Oh, but my husband, my poor husband. What will he do? Tell me what he says. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. But your dream? The earthly paradise? The 2,2. A LESSON IN HARMONY. island home in the Aegean, blue skies, blue seas, blue mountains ? IDA LESLIE. How can you ? — at such a moment ? Dreams in- deed! My dear, dear little home! {She sobs.) My beautiful garden ! Just as I had made them so nice! Where does he write from? Give mc the letter — (takes letter.) — get me the A. B. C. OTHO hAzLEWOOD. Hadn't you better read the letter, first. IDA LESLIE. (Reading.) " My Dear Otho : " Such a turn of luck ! My head clerk met me at the station with my city letters. Things have turned out capitally, and instead of being five thousand to the bad by my late speculations, I am ten thousand to the good. I am not going to the city, but am going to take a holiday to-day, and shall be home as soon as ever I have gone through the correspondence here with my clerk. So mind you don't go." (Brightening up, hut still reproachfully.) Why did you torment me so? (Otho takes out photo and kisses it.) What are you doing? (Takes photo from him. ) What a lovely girl ! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Isn't she? IDA LESLIE. Who is she? A LESSON IN HARMONY. 23 OTHO HAZLEWOOD. My future wife. IDA LESLIE. Your future wife! (Looking at photo, reads.) " From Gwen." May one ask how long you have been engaged ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. With her father's consent, since this morning — (Casing at the photograph.) Isn't she charming? IDA LESLIE. But — Mr. Hazlewood' OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Yes — I know what you are going to say. IDA LESLIE. Probably you do. (With dignity.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Forgive me. (Rise.) But remember, I put only a supposititious case. I am your husband's oldest friend, and would do anything for him, and — if you will allow me to say so — for you also. IDA LESLIE. You're really too obliging. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Again I say, forgive me. (Goes up.) I am a good deal older than you, I am sorry to say — and it would be rather hard, therefore, if I had not some 24 A LESSON IN HARMONY. small compensation for that melancholy circum- stance by being perhaps just a wee bit wiser — in a worldly sense. IDA LESLIE. I cannot honestly say, Mr. Hazlewood, that you seemed very old just now. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Perhaps not. Neither will I pretend that I am so old that I might not fall in love with you, if you were not my friend's wife. IDA LESLIE. And if you were not engaged to some one prettier than your friend's wife. No, I'm not fishing. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Once more, please, forgive me. Syringing your flowers this morning, I accidentally found this — it's all right. {Producing the verses sighted L. G. Ida starts and shows confusion.) 1 am sure you toler- ated, rather than encouraged, this somewhat poor versifier — and no one will ever know of — his in- discretion — but you and I. (He gives her the piece of paper,) IDA LESLIE. (Crosses L.) At any rate, you cannot think I am very infatuated about him, for I sent him away, in order to enjoy your — a — society. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Quite so. All men are conceited, where women are concerned, as you must well know, and I was A LESSON IN HARMONY. 25 much flattered at holding my own against that amorous young rhymester, despite the handicap of fifteen more years. IDA LESLIE. And even when you only feigned to be in love ! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. (Moving towards her.) Are you sure, Mrs. Les- lie, he isn't feigning, too ? Are you sure all men are not feigning when they make love to other men's wives ? IDA LESLIE. ril admit you did it rather nicely. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Oh, it is so easy. Besides, I will confess, I did it, with considerable advantages in my favour — first and foremost, a most captivating person to do it to. (Ida curtseys.) Then, in the second place, what you are good enough to call nicely done, was not quite original. IDA LESLIE. What do you mean? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Well, you see Fve just finished a play, in which it all comes in; and I have been teaching an actor how to say it. You know actors always write the author's play for him — all the good things in it at least — and so the author, in sheer gratitude, teaches the actor how to say them, unless, indeed, the dra- matic critic performs both operations for them. 26 A LESSON IN HARMONY. IDA LESLIE. Then all that was play-acting? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Of course. {Moves R.) IDA LESLIE. Now, I understand why going to the theatre is so nice. But what a memory you must have. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. It did not require much effort of memory. But it did need a little ingenuity and transposition now and then. You didn't quite give me the right cues. IDA LESLIE. I think I gave you them very nicely. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. {Putting his hand for a moment on hers, and she quickly zvithdraws it; sits R. of her.) Indeed you did. May I preach? IDA LESLIE. Preach ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Yes, a curtain lecture, only with hlue skies instead of blue curtains — just a little lecture. May I? IDA LESLIE. Well, just a little one. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Go to the play, by all means ; pay your half guinea. A LESSON IN HARMONY. 27 weep — laugh and sigh — as much as ever you like ; and then have done with it. There is the world of dreams and the world of facts ; stage life and real life. They are quite distinct and separate. If ever found in conjunction, it is only for a few privileged beings and with them for a limited time ! Had we gone to Sorrento IDA LESLIE. Sorrento ! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Well, that's the bluest place I can think of. The first day it would have rained ; the second, we should have quarrelled — the third, since there would have been nothing to prevent it, we should have separated. IDA LESLIE. You're not very complimentary. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Well, no doubt I exaggerate — by a few days. Romantic love is a terminable annuity, and unfor- tunately, it is terminable before death. Indeed it is like living on one's capital ; and as romantic lovers are very prodigal, they soon run through it. Mar- riage was invented, like trustees, to save lovers from beggaring themselves. It was devised in order to prolong what is over, and to continue what may be finished ; to induce, nay, to compel people to eat up the cold mutton when the hot joint has cooled. IDA LESLIE. How dreadful ! 28 A LESSON IN HARMONY. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Is it? Nothing is dreadful that must be. You see we come back to the mutton ; to the subject with which we started. I overheard what Phil said to you about his waistcoats and the mutton and your replies ; immediately after, I found those gushing verses; I drew my own conclusions, and thought that perhaps I might venture to give the Lesson in Harmony Phil was so anxious you should take. IDA LESLIE. What if I call it a lesson in thorough bass? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Ah ! but you won't — you'll let me ofif this once, won't you ? IDA LESLIE. Pm not sure OTHO HAZLEWOOD. After all, white waistcoats must be washed — sometimes ; and if a man is in that — forgive me — that beastly city, it is not so very unreasonable that a woman should steal a few moments from her — gar- den — to confer with the laundress. Moreover, mutton ought to be hung — and now that we are both in a candid mood — the saddle last night — was — well, rather like a saddle. IDA LESLIE. I'll admit I didn't eat any of it. I suppose I mustn't say that Phil is inclined to be a little fas- tidious. A LESSON IN HARMONY. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. 29 He was very fastidious, at any rate, when he chose you ; and therefore you, at least, may pardon him for being fastidious in other ways. Marriage puts most men at a considerable disadvantage. They have to keep the wolf from the door, to provide the purple and fine linen, to pay the Christmas bills; and in order to do these things, they have not only to work hard, and to endure a good deal of anxiety, but to enter into the many little money details. Now, if there is one thing more than another that all nice women dislike, it is money details. Blue skies, blue seas, blue mountains IDA LESLIE. Yes, yes, I know. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Are much nicer subjects of conversation, and it is so easy for men who are not married to indulge in them. IDA LESLIE. (Rise.) Yes, I understand, thank you. (She turns and sees the Sei"-uant, zvho enters the garden and hands Ida a telegram. Reads aloud.) "Will come this afternoon by the 4.25 train — Yours re- spectfully, Ellen Backhouse." Why, that is the name of the maid. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. No doubt Phil telegraphed to her to come, the moment he heard of the change of afifairs in the city. IDA LESLIE. Will you forgive me? I must go and see to her 30 A LESSON IN HARMONY. room being got ready. (Clapping her hands.) How nice! {She goes into the house.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. ( To photo of Gwen. ) Gwen darling, will you de- mand the mountains, blue skies, blue seas, blue rooms, blue maids. I wonder ! {Crosses to house.) {Phil comes up the zualk.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. There you are ! PHIL. LESLIE. You got my letter ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. {Grasping his hand affectionately,) Yes. So glad your luck's turned. PHIL. LESLIE. .Where is Ida? (C.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Gone indoors to make preparations for her new maid. She had a telegram saying Ellen somebody is to be here this afternoon. She's radiant about it. PHIL. LESLIE. I thought she would be. Was she very low be- fore? {Throzvs hat and umbrella in hammock.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Very. A LESSON IN HARMONY. 31 PHIL. LESLIE. But you cheered her up? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. I did my best. {Slapping him on the shoulder.) PHIL. LESLIE. Thanks, old man. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. But I say, old boy, if you don't mind, I think I should not make such a fuss about the mutton being tough. PHIL. LESLIE. Did I make a fuss? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Well, you said it was tough, and wanted hanging, when really it was very fair, and when mutton is young, much may be forgiven. And, when women are hipped, they hate being talked to about tough mutton. PHIL. LESLIE. All right, old man! I'll see the butcher myself. {Crosses R.) OTHO HAZLEWOOD. And, I say, if I were you — it's quite between ourselves you know — you and I are old friends — I wouldn't wear quite so many white waistcoats — or if I do, I would wash them myself. PHIL. LESLIE. What do you mean? 32 A LESSON IN HARMONY. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Precisely what I say. (Phil laughs and moves towards house.) And just one thing more, while we are on the subject! If you don't mind, talk about blue skies sometimes — blue seas — blue mountains. PHIL. LESLIE. But they're not blue. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. My dear fellow, I know that just as well as you do. But what does it matter what colour they are? Say they are blue. Women like them to be blue, especially when they feel blue themselves ; and mind you, say it in the proper tone of voice. Blue skies — blue seas — blue mountains. (Phil repeats after him. ) (Ida comes out of the house.) IDA LESLIE. Phil ! The maid is coming at 4.25. PHIL. LESLIE. I telegraphed to her. And I rather hope the Vic- toria will come by the same train. I telegraphed for that too. IDA LESLIE. (Throzving her arms round him.) You dear old thing. (Otho coughs.) PHIL. LESLIE. But, don't you think, Ida, after this new stroke of A LESSON IN HARMONY. 33 luck we are entitled to a holiday — I mean a real holiday — a run abroad IDA LESLIE. Oh, yes. PHIL. LESLIE. To blue skies — blue seas. IDA LESLIE. Ah! PHIL. LESLIE. Blue mountains ! IDA LESLIE. (Putting her arm through his.) Delightful! PHIL. LESLIE. Now I'll go round to the stables and give orders about the Victoria being met. IDA LESLIE. Oh, yes ; do, do ! (Otho picks up from hammock Phil's hat and stick; puts them on and sings '' When We Arc Married," and laughs at Ida.) (Exit Phil through C. gate to the stables. Enter Servant from house.) SERVANT. Sir Lothario Greatrex has called again. IDA LESLIE. Ask him to wait a moment. (Exit Servant into house.) LofC. 34 A LESSON IN HARMONY. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. (Puts hat and stick back into hammock.) What are you going to do ? IDA LESLIE. Going to send him back his verses. But I don't know what to say. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. May I help you ? IDA LESLIE. It's a shame to trouble you. OTHO HAZLEWOOD. It's a pleasure. How shall we begin. I know, Dear Sir Lothario. IDA LESLIE. " Dear Sir Lothario " : OTHO HAZLEWOOD. So far it's very easy, isn't it? (He goes to her R.; after a pause he continues.) I return you the verses, with best thanks for your attentions. But Mr. Hazlewood, who is here, and who is a great au- thority on verses, says there are three false quanli- ties in them, and four false rhymes IDA LESLIE. Am I to write that ? OTHO HAZLEWOOD. Yes, it will do him good. A LESSON IN HARMONY. 35 IDA LESLIE. ( Writing. ) " Four false rhymes " OTHO HAZLEWOOD. And if yon will call to-morrow afternoon, about five, by which time my husband will be at home, and Mr. Hazlewood will have left IDA LESLIE. No, no, coward ! OTHO HAZLEWOOD. It will give him much pleasure to hear how well I've progressed with IDA LESLIE. " How well I've progressed with "- OTHO HAZLEWOOD. My Lesson in Harmony! IDA LESLIE. " My Lesson in Harmony." CURTAIN. SEND FOR A NEW DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. (Frenches Standard Drama Continued from 2d page of Cover.) VOL. XLI. 821 The Pirate'* Legacy 822 The Charcoal Burner 323 Adelgitha 324 Seiior Valients 825 Forest Rose 326 Duke's Daughter 327 Camilla's Husband 328 Pure Gold VOL. XLIL 329 Ticket of Leave Man 330 Fool's Revenge 331 O'Neil the Great 832 Handy Andy 333 Pirate of tha IilM 334 Fanchon 335 Little Barefoot 336 Wild Irish Girl VOL. XLIIL 337 Pearl of Savoy 338 Dead Heart 339 Ten Nights in a Bar-room 340 Dumb Boy of Manchester 341 Beiphegoi-theMounteb'k 342 Cricket on the Hearth 843 Printer's Devil 844 IMeg'i Diversion VOL. XLIV. 345 Drunkard's Doom 346 Jhimney Corner 347 Fifteen Years of a Drunk 348 No Thoroughfare fard'; 349 Peep O' Day [Life 350 Everybody's Friend 361 Gen. Grant 352 Kathleen Mavourneen VOL. XLV. 353 Nick Whiffles 354 Fruits of the Wine Cup 365 Drunkard's Warning 866 Temperance Doctot 367 Aunt Dinah 358 Widow Freehear* 359 Frou Frou 360 Long Strike VOL. 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XIII. 97 My Wife's Mirror 98 Life in New York 99 Middy Ashore 100 Crown Prince 101 Two Querns 102 Thumping Legacy 103 Unfinished Gentleman 104 House Dog VOL. XIV, 105 The Demon Lorer 106 Matrimony 107 In and Outof Place JOS I Dine with My Mother 109 Hi-a-wa-tha 110 Andy Blake 111 Lovb in '76 [ties 112 Ron.ance under Difficul- VOL. XV. 113 One Coat for '.i Suits 114 A Decided Case 115 Daughter [nority 1 16 No; or, the Glorious Mi- 117 Coroner's Inqrisition 118 Love in Humble Life 119 Family Jars 120 ferson.ation VOL. XVI. 121 Children in the Wood 122 Winning a Husband 123 Day After the Fair 124'Make Your Wills 125 Rendezvous 126 My Wife's Husband 127 Monsieur Touson 128 Illustrious Stv.anger VOL. XVII. 129 Mischief-Making [Mints 130 A Live Woman in the 131 The Cors.air 132 Shylock 133 Spoiled Child 134 Evil Eve 135 Nothing to Nurse 136 Wanted a Widow XOL. XVIII. 137 Lottery Ticket 138 Fortune's Frolic 139 Is he Jealous! 140 Married Bachelor 141 Husband at Sight 142 Irishman in London 143 Anima! Magnetisiii 144 Highways and By-Wavs VOL. XIX. 145 Columbus 146 Harlequin Bluebeard 147 Ladies at Home 148 Phenomenon in a Smock Frock 149 Comedy and Tragedy 150 Opposite Neighbors 151 Dutchin.an's Ghost 152 Persecuted Dutchman VOL. XX. 153 Musard Ball 154 Great Tragic Revival 156 A Gentleman fro«\ Ire- 57 Tom and Jerry [li 58 Village Lawyer 59 Captain's not A-miss 160 Amateurs and Act 014 387 072 8 ire's Dream 161 Pre 162 A 163 Mr-. ._ 164 Shakeap 165 N«ptune'« Defeat 166 Lady of Bedchamber '.67 Take Care of Little 168 Irish Widow [Charley VOL. XXII. 169 Yankee Peddler 170 Hiram Hireout 171 Double-Bedded Room 172 The Drama Defended 173 Vermont Wool Dealer 174 Ebenezer Venture [ter 175 Principles from Charae- 176 Ladv of the Lake (Trav) VOL. xxia. 177 Mad Dogs 178 Barney the Baron 179 Swiss Swains 180 Bachelor's Bedroom 181 A Roland for an Oliver 182 More Blunders than One 183 Dumb Belie 1»4 Limerick Boy VOL. XXlV. 185 Nature and Philosophy 186 Teddy the Tiler 187 Spectre Bridegroom 188 Matteo Falcone 189 Jenny Lind 190 Two "Buzzards 191 Happy Man 192 Betsy Baker VOL. XXV. 193 No. 1 Round the Comer 194 Teddy Roe 195 Object of Interest 196 My Fellow Clerk 197 Bengal Tiger 198 Laughing Hvena 199 The Victor Vanquished 200 Our Wife VOL. XXVI. 201 My Husband's Mirror 202 Yankee Land 203 Norah Creina 204 Good for Nothing 205 The First Night 206 The Eton Boy 207 Wandering Minstrel 208 W»nted, 1000 Milliners VOL. XXVIL 209 Poor Pilcoddy 210 The Mummy [Glasses 211 Don't Forget your Opera 212 Love in Livery 213 Anthony and Cleopatra 214 Trying It On 215 Stage Struik Yankee 216 Young Wife & Old Um- brella VOL. xxvin. 217 Crinoline 218 A Family Failing 219 Adopted'Child 220 Turned Heads 221 A Match in the Dark 222 Advice to Husbands 223 Siamese Twins 224 Sent to the Tower VOL. XXIX. 225 Somebody Else '2J6 L.adies' Battle 227 Art of Acting 228 The Lady of the Lions 229 The Rights of Man 230 Mv Husb.and's Ghost 231 Two Can Play at that Game 232 Fighting by Proxy VOL. 5{XX. 233 Unprotected Female 234 Pet of the Petticoats 155 High Low Jack & Game 235 Forty .and Fifty [book 236 Who Stole the Pocket 237 My Son Diana [sion 238 Unwarrantable Intru- 239 Mr. and Mrs. White 240 A Quiet Family (Frenches Minor Drama Continue J on ^d page of Cover.) 244 A Birgmeirueme 245 Little Toddlekins 24b A Lovtr by Proxy [Pail 247 Maid with the Milking 248 Perplexing Predicament VOL. XXXU. 249 Dr. Dilworth 250 Out to .Nurse 251 A Lucky Hit 252 The Dowager 253 Metamora (Burlesque) 254 Dreams of Delusion 255 The Shaker Lovers 256 Ticklish Tim.s VOL. XXXIIL 257 20 Minutes with a Tiger 255 Miralda; or, the Justice of Tacon 259 A Soldier's Courtship 260 Servants by Legacy 261 Dying for Love 262 Alarming Sacrific* 263 VaJet de Shim . 264Nichola» Mckleby VOL. XXXlV. 268 Th« Last of ths Pigtails 266 King Rene's Daughter 267 The Grotto Nymph 26S A Devilish Good Joke L'f.O A Twice Told Tale 211) Pas (le Fascination ■^71 Revolutionary Soldier 272 A Man Without a Head VOL. XXXV. 973 The Olio, Part 1 274 Tne Olio, Part 2 275 The Olio, Part 3 [ter 276 The Trumpeter's Daugh- 277 Seeing Warren 278 Green Mountain Boy 279 That Nose 280 Tom Noddy's Secret VOL. XXXVL 231 Shocking Events 262 A Regular Fix 283 Dick Turpin 284 Young Scamp 285 Young Actress 256 Call at No. 1—7 287 One Touch of Nature 288 Two B'hoys VOL. X XXVIL 289 All the World's a Stage 290 Quash, or Nigger Prac- 291 Turn Him Out [tice 292 Pretty Girls of ^lillberg 293 Angel of the Attic 294 CircnmstancesalterCases 295 Katty O'Sheal 296 A Slipper in Dixie VOL. XXXVIH. 297 I