_Rosmershölm_ is in four Acts and one Scene--a room in _Rosmer's_ House. Act I. _Rector Kroll_, who is the brother-in-law of _Pastor Rosmer_, calls upon the latter, to ask him to edit a paper in the Conservative interest. _Kroll_ (who, by the way, is a married man) before seeing the widower of his dead sister, has a mild flirtation with _Rebecca West_, a female of a certain age, who has taken up her abode for some years in the Rector's house. And here I may observe that the Rector's housekeeper, _Madame Helseth_, presumably a highly respectable person, although she has excellent reasons, from the first, for believing that the relations between her Master and _Rebecca_ are scarcely platonic, accepts the domestic arrangements of the Rosmer _ménage_ with hearty acquiescence, not to say enthusiasm. _Rosmer_ interrupts the Rector's _tête-à-tête_ with the fascinating _Rebecca_, and declines the proffered editorship, because he is a Radical, and an atheist. End of Act I.,--no action to speak of, but a good deal of wordy twaddle. In Act II. we learn that the late _Mrs. Rosmer_ has committed suicide, because she was informed that the apostate Pastor could only save his villainy from exposure by giving immediately the position of wife to her friend _Rebecca_. She has had this tip on the most reliable authority,--it has been furnished by _Rebecca_ herself. Then the Pastor asks _Rebecca_ to marry him, but is refused, for no apparent reason, unless it be that she has tired of her guilty passion. In Act III. _Rebecca_ admits to the widower and his brother-in-law that she has deceived the deceased, and prepares to decamp. In the final Act the apostate Pastor declares that he has been in love with _Rebecca_ from the first, loves her now, but is not sure that she loves him. To set his mind at rest on this point, will she do him a small favour? Will she be so good as to jump into the mill-stream, and drown herself? With pleasure--and she takes a header! He explains that courtesy forbids him to keep a lady waiting, and follows her example! So both are drowned, and all ends happily!