Transcribed from the 1909 Hodder & Stoughton edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org * * * * * _Fanny and_ _the Servant Problem_ _A Quite Possible Play in Four Acts_ _By_ _Jerome K. Jerome_ * * * * * * * * * * _COPYRIGHT_ 1909 _BY_ _JEROME KLAPKA JEROME_ * * * * * * * * * * _Hodder and Stoughton_ _Limited_ _London_ * * * * * Amateurs wishing to perform this play should apply to: SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD. 26 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.2. * * * * * _Made and Printed in Great Britain_. _Hazell_, _Watson & Viney_, _Ld._, _London and Aylesbury_. THE CHARACTERS _Fanny_ _Her Husband_, _Vernon Wetherell_, _Lord Bantock_ _Her Butler_, _Martin Bennet_ _Her Housekeeper_, _Susannah Bennet_ _Her Maid_, _Jane Bennet_ _Her Second Footman_, _Ernest Bennet_ _Her Still-room Maid_, _Honoria Bennet_ _Her Aunts by marriage_, _the Misses Wetherell_ _Her Local Medical Man_, _Dr. Freemantle_ _Her quondam Companions_, “_Our Empire_”: _England_ _Scotland_ _Ireland_ _Wales_ _Canada_ _Australia_ _New Zealand_ _Africa_ _India_ _Newfoundland_ _Malay Archipelago_ _Straits Settlements_ _Her former Business Manager_, _George P. Newte_ _ACT I_ _SCENE_ _The Lady Bantock’s boudoir_, _Bantock Hall_, _Rutlandshire_, _a spacious room handsomely furnished_ (_chiefly in the style of Louis the Fourteenth_) _and lighted by three high windows_, _facing the south-west_. _A door between the fireplace and the windows leads to his lordship’s apartments_. _A door the other side of the fireplace is the general entrance_. _The door opposite the windows leads through her ladyship’s dressing-room into her ladyship’s bedroom_. _Over the great fireplace hangs a full-length portrait of Constance_, _first Lady Bantock_, _by Hoppner_.