Dramatis Personae + 

Richard Rowan, a writer + 

Bertha + 

Archie, their son, aged eight years + 

Robert Hand, journalist + 

Beatrice Justice, his cousin, music teacher + 

Brigid, an old servant of the Rowan family + 

A Fishwoman + 

At Merrion and Ranelagh, suburbs of Dublin. + 

Summer of the year 1912. + 