Produced by David Garcia, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. HER OWN WAY [Illustration: Macmillan Logo] Her Own Way _A PLAY IN FOUR ACTS_ _By_ CLYDE FITCH THE MACMILLAN COMPANY _NEW YORK MCMVII_ LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD. COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1907. All acting rights, both professional and amateur, are reserved by Clyde Fitch. Performances forbidden and right of representation reserved. Application for the right of performing this piece must be made to The Macmillan Company. Any piracy or infringement will be prosecuted in accordance with the penalties provided by the United States Statutes:-- "SEC. 4966.--Any person publicly performing or representing any dramatic or musical composition, for which copyright has been obtained, without the consent of the proprietor of the said dramatic or musical composition, or his heirs or assigns, shall be liable for damages therefor, such damages in all cases to be assessed at such sum, not less than one hundred dollars for the first and fifty dollars for every subsequent performance, as to the Court shall appear to be just. If the unlawful performance and representation be wilful and for profit, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be imprisoned for a period not exceeding one year."--U.S. REVISED STATUTES, Title 60, Chap. 3. Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Transcriber's Note: various printer's errors--typos and missing punctuation--were corrected for this e-book. TO MAXINE ELLIOTT AND EVERYTHING IS SAID! C.F. 1907 _HER OWN WAY_ ACT I. THE PLAYROOM. _Ten days elapse._ ACT II. THE DRAWING-ROOM. _Eight months elapse._ ACT III. GEORGIANA'S ROOM. _Four weeks elapse._ ACT IV. THE DRAWING-ROOM. PLACE--NEW YORK. _THE PEOPLE IN THE PLAY_ GEORGIANA CARLEY. MRS. CARLEY Her step-mother. MRS. STEVEN CARLEY Her sister-in-law, born "Coast," and daughter of Mrs. Carley by a former marriage. PHILIP } CHRISTOPHER } Children of Mr. and Mrs. Steven Carley. TOOTS } ELAINE From next door. LIZZIE Mrs. Carley's maid. MISS BELLA SHINDLE "The Lady Hair-dresser." LIEUTENANT RICHARD COLEMAN. SAM COAST Louise Carley's own cousin. STEVEN CARLEY Georgiana's brother. MOLES Butler to the Carleys. A FOOTMAN At the Carleys. Produced at the Star Theatre, Buffalo, September 24, 1903, and on September 28, 1903, at the Garrick Theatre, New York, with the following cast:--