Jack Barthwick, son of a wealthy Liberal MP, comes home drunk with a woman’s purse he has taken on a lark. Jones, an unemployed man who helps him in, pockets the purse and a silver cigarette box, and suspicion falls on his wife, the Barthwicks’ charwoman. The magistrate’s court then shows how differently the law treats the two offenders.
Galsworthy’s first play, a sharp piece of social drama about class and justice in Edwardian London. Download the free EPUB.