In a luxurious wainscoted room, the nobleman Alexis plays chess with Constantine before the fire. Into this calm comes Boris, a man of the people who has come to kill him, and the play becomes a contest of nerve and argument in which Alexis tries to show his assassin that the man he hates is the man he might have been.
A tight little-theatre piece, ideal for reading aloud or staging. Download the free EPUB.