Note: Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://archive.org/details/thesecondmrstanq00pineuoft THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY * * * * * _THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR W. PINERO_ WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTES BY MALCOLM C. SALAMAN Paper cover, 1s. 6d.; cloth, 2s. 6d. each _THE TIMES_ _THE PROFLIGATE_ _THE CABINET MINISTER_ _THE HOBBY-HORSE_ _LADY BOUNTIFUL_ _THE MAGISTRATE_ _DANDY DICK_ _SWEET LAVENDER_ _THE SCHOOLMISTRESS_ _THE WEAKER SEX_ _THE AMAZONS_ _THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY_ _THE NOTORIOUS MRS. EBBSMITH_ _THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT_ _THE PRINCESS AND THE BUTTERFLY_ _TRELAWNY OF THE "WELLS"_ _THE PINERO BIRTHDAY BOOK_ Selected and arranged by MYRA HAMILTON With a Portrait. 16mo, cloth, 2s. 6d. _LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN_ * * * * * THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY A Play In Four Acts by ARTHUR W. PINERO London: William Heinemann MCM First Impression, 1895 Second Impression, 1898 Third Impression, 1900 Copyright, 1895 All rights reserved Entered at Stationers' Hall Entered at the Library of Congress Washington, U.S.A. All applications respecting amateur performances of this play must be made to Mr. Pinero's agents, Samuel French, Limited, 89 Strand, London, W.C. THIS PLAY WAS PRODUCED AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE ON Saturday, May 27, 1893. _THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY_ AUBREY TANQUERAY. PAULA. ELLEAN. CAYLEY DRUMMLE. MRS. CORTELYON. CAPTAIN HUGH ARDALE. GORDON JAYNE, M.D. FRANK MISQUITH, Q.C., M.P. SIR GEORGE ORREYED, BART. LADY ORREYED. MORSE. _The Present Day._ _The Scene of the First Act is laid at_ MR. TANQUERAY's _rooms, No. 2x, The Albany, in the month of November; the occurrences of the succeeding Acts take place at his house, "Highercoombe," near Willowmere, Surrey, during the early part of the following year._ THE SECOND MRS. TANQUERAY THE FIRST ACT AUBREY TANQUERAY's _Chambers in the Albany--a richly and tastefully decorated room, elegantly and luxuriously furnished: on the right a large pair of doors opening into another room, on the left at the further end of the room a small door leading to a bedchamber. A circular table is laid for a dinner for four persons which has now reached the stage of dessert and coffee. Everything in the apartment suggests wealth and refinement. The fire is burning brightly._