Produced by David T. Jones, James Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THREE PLAYS BY GRANVILLE BARKER _These plays may also be obtained separately: in cloth, 2s. net each; in paper covers, 1s. 6d. net each._ THREE PLAYS BY GRANVILLE BARKER: THE MARRYING OF ANN LEETE--THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE--WASTE LONDON: SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD. 3 ADAM STREET, ADELPHI. MCMIX. _Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U.S.A. All rights reserved._ _First Impression, August 1909_ _Second Impression, September 1909_ _Third Impression, November 1909_ To the memory of my fellow-worker, St. John Hankin. The Marrying of Ann Leete A COMEDY 1899 THE MARRYING OF ANN LEETE _The first three acts of the comedy pass in the garden at Markswayde_, MR. CARNABY LEETE'S _house near Reading, during a summer day towards the close of the eighteenth century: the first act at four in the morning, the second shortly after mid-day, the third near to sunset. The fourth act takes place one day in the following winter; the first scene in the hall at Markswayde, the second scene in a cottage some ten miles off._ _This part of the Markswayde garden looks to have been laid out during the seventeenth century. In the middle a fountain; the centrepiece the figure of a nymph, now somewhat cracked, and pouring nothing from the amphora; the rim of the fountain is high enough and broad enough to be a comfortable seat._ _The close turf around is in parts worn bare. This plot of ground is surrounded by a terrace three feet higher. Three sides of it are seen. From two corners broad steps lead down; stone urns stand at the bottom and top of the stone balustrades. The other two corners are rounded convexly into broad stone seats._ _Along the edges of the terrace are growing rose trees, close together; behind these, paths; behind those, shrubs and trees. No landscape is to be seen. A big copper beech overshadows the seat on the left. A silver birch droops over the seat on the right. The trees far to the left indicate an orchard, the few to the right are more of the garden sort. It is the height of summer, and after a long drought the rose trees are dilapidated._