The First and the Last: A Drama in Three Scenes

Galsworthy, John · 1933

Between SCENE I. and SCENE II.--Thirty hours. Between SCENE II. and SCENE III.--Two months. It is six o'clock of a November evening, in KEITH DARRANT'S study. A large, dark-curtained room where the light from a single reading-lamp falling on Turkey carpet, on books beside a large armchair, on the deep blue-and-gold coffee service, makes a sort of oasis before a log fire. In red Turkish slippers and an old brown velvet coat, KEITH DARRANT sits asleep. He has a dark, clean-cut, clean-shaven face, dark grizzling hair, dark twisting eyebrows.…

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