Musotte or a Critical Situation

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

JEAN MARTINEL. Nephew of M. Martinel, a painter; not yet thirty years of age, but already well known and the recipient of various honors. / LEON DE PETITPRÉ. Brother to Gilberts Martinel, a young lawyer about thirty years of age. / M. MARTINEL. An old gunmaker of Havre, aged fifty-five. / M. DE PETITPRÉ. An old magistrate, officer of the Legion of Honor. Aged sixty. / DR. PELLERIN. A fashionable physician of about thirty-five. / MME. DE RONCHARD. Sister to M. de Petitpré, about fifty-five years of age. / HENRIETTE LÉVÊQUE. Nicknamed Musotte; a little model, formerly Jean Martinel's mistress. Twenty-two years of age. / MME. FLACHE. A midwife. Formerly a ballet-dancer at the Opera. About thirty-five years of age. / GILBERTE MARTINEL. Daughter of M. and Mme. de Petitpré, married in the morning to Jean Martinel. About twenty years old. / LISE BABIN. A nurse, about twenty-six. / SERVANTS. _Time: Paris of to-day. The first and third acts take place in_ M. de