Complete Plays of John Galsworthy

The Silver Box

A Comedy in Three Acts

Persons of the Play

JOHN BARTHWICK, M.P., a wealthy Liberal
MRS. BARTHWICK, his wife
JACK BARTHWICK, their son
ROPER, their solicitor
MRS. JONES, their charwoman
MARLOW, their manservant
WHEELER, their maidservant
JONES, the stranger within their gates
MRS. SEDDON, a landlady
SNOW, a detective
A POLICE MAGISTRATE
AN UNKNOWN LADY, from beyond
TWO LITTLE GIRLS, homeless
LIVENS, their father
A RELIEVING OFFICER
A MAGISTRATE’S CLERK
AN USHER
POLICEMEN, CLERKS, AND OTHERS

Time: The present. The action of the first two Acts takes place on Easter Tuesday; the action of the third on Easter Wednesday week.

Act I. Scene I. Rockingham Gate. John Barthwick’s Dining-Room. Scene II. the Same. Scene III. the Same

Act II. Scene I. the Jones’s Lodgings, Merthyr Street. Scene II. John Barthwick’s Dining-Room

Act III. A London Police Court