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Lady Frederick - A Comedy in Three Acts - cover

Lady Frederick - A Comedy in Three Acts

William Somerset Maugham

Publisher: Interactive Media

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Summary

Drawing-room of the Hotel Splendide at Monte Carlo. A large, handsomely furnished room, with doors right and left, and French windows at the back leading to a terrace. Through these is seen the starry southern night. On one side is a piano, on the other a table with papers neatly laid out on it. There is a lighted stove. Lady Mereston, in evening dress, rather magnificently attired, is reading the papers. She is a handsome woman of forty. She puts down the paper impatiently and rings the bell. A servant answers. He has a French accent.
Available since: 03/20/2021.
Print length: 168 pages.

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