THE PAST
AN HOUR IN A MID-VICTORIAN DRAWING-ROOM
BY TYRONE GUTHRIE
Period : In the year 1882 Characters
Dinner is over, but the Colonel and the two young men are still in the dining-room. The women are alone in the drawing-room-eomfortable Mrs. Podbury-Pauncefote, Alberta, her pretty daughter, and Clara Twigg.