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CHARACTERS Captain Hagberd (a retired coasting skipper). Josiah Carvil (formerly a shipbuilder -- a widower -- blind). Harry Hagberd (son of Captain Hagberd, who as a boy ran away from home). A Lamplighter. Bessie Carvil (daughter of Josiah Carvil).
CURTAIN RISES DISCLOSING CARVIL _and Bessie moving away from sea-wall. Bessie about twenty-five. Black dress; black straw hat. A lot of mahogany-coloured hair loosely done up. Pale face. Full figure. Very quiet. Carvil, blind, unwieldy. Reddish whiskers; slow, deep voice produced without effort. Immovable, big face._