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When his younger brother incurs a large betting debt, what could be easier than for a man to borrow the money to save him from the factory he runs while his employers are away. Whoops; his employers are coming back before he has repaid the money. Ah, perhaps his wife can get the money from a friendly Lord who was once her suitor.... A friendly card game perhaps. What could go wrong?
Arthur Wing Pinero
Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) was the leading playwrightof the Victorian theatre. His plays include The Schoolmistress(1886), Dandy Dick (1887), Sweet Lavender (1888), TheNotorious Mrs. Ebbsmith (1895), Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ (1898),The Gay Lord Quex (1899), Iris (1901), and Mid-Channel (1909).
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