Transcriber's Note: The following appears as a handwritten note in the original text. * * * * * [Illustration: The Profligate Dunstan Renshaw & Lord Dangars have been wild, and Dunstan is to marry Leslie Brudenell, an innocent school girl. Knowing what Dunstan’s past has been Hugh Murray won’t come to the wedding. Janet Preece, a girl ruined & deserted by Dunstan enters & Murray says he will help find her wronger. Dunstan returned & in love with Leslie, go to Italy for their honeymoon. The Michael Angelo sketches at their villa draw tourists, among whom are Mrs Stonehay & her daughter, Irene, engaged to Lord Dangars, and a school friend of Leslie. Leslie tries to prevent the match. Dunstan goes to Rome for furnishings & meets Lord Dangars. In the meantime Janet Preece comes to the villa, weak & weary. She confesses she has been ruined & can not marry Wilfred, Leslie’s brother. Leslie persuades her to tell Mrs. Stonehay how Lord Dangars ruined her. Thinking he was the one but when the indictment comes to Leslie’s horror Dunstan is found guilty. She sends him away. Janet Preece goes for Australia, & leaves Wilfred, Hugh Murray tries to look after Leslie, and Dunstan returns to her. Thinking she will spurn him he takes poison. Leslie comes to him, forgiving calling “Husband!”] _THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY_ WILFRID BRUDENELL LESLIE, _his sister_ DUNSTAN RENSHAW JANET PREECE MR. CHEAL HUGH MURRAY MR. EPHGRAVES LORD DANGARS MRS. STONEHAY IRENE, _her daughter_ WEAVER PRISCILLA _THE FIRST ACT_ “THIS MAN AND THIS WOMAN” _THE SECOND ACT_ THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES _THE THIRD ACT_ THE END OF THE HONEYMOON _THE FOURTH ACT_ THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE THE PROFLIGATE THE FIRST ACT. THIS MAN AND THIS WOMAN. _The scene is the junior partner’s room in the offices of MESSRS. CHEAL and MURRAY, solicitors, Furnival’s Inn, Holborn. There is a gloomy air about the place, with its heavy, old-fashioned furniture, its oak-panelled walls and dirty white mantelpiece, and its accumulation of black tin deed-boxes._ _HUGH MURRAY, a pale, thoughtful, resolute-looking man of about thirty, plainly dressed, is writing intently at a pedestal-table. He pays no heed to a knock at the door, which is followed by the entrance of MR. EPHGRAVES, an elderly, sober-looking clerk, who places a slip of paper before him._ HUGH MURRAY. Lord Dangars. EPHGRAVES. Yes. HUGH MURRAY. Mr. Cheal always sees Lord Dangars. EPHGRAVES. Yes, sir, but Mr. Cheal is so put about by this morning’s very unusual business that he doesn’t wish to see anybody till after the wedding. HUGH MURRAY. Very well. EPHGRAVES.