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SCENE: A handsome sitting-room in a bachelor's apartments on the first floor of a house in Piccadilly, opposite the Green Park. It is obviously the room of a man of comfortable means and good taste. The decoration and furniture are of the Adams period. (For details of scene see accompanying plan.)
TIME: It is about half-past ten at night in the winter, and there is a cheerful fire in the room.