Eugene O'Neill Jonathan Cape Thirty Bedford Square, London FIRST PUBLISHED 1922 REPRINTED IN 1925 REPRINTED IN 1931 REPRINTED IN 1935 REPRINTED IN 1953 REPRINTED IN 1955 REPRINTED IN 1958 REPRINTED IN 1965 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY BUTLER AND TANNER LTD. FROME AND LONDON BOUND BY A. W. BAIN AND CO. LTD.

Characters

Bill Carmody
Mary	}
Nora	} his children
Tom	}
Billy	}
Doctor Gaynor
Fred Nicholls
Eileen Carmody,	Bill's eldest child
Stephen Murray
Miss Howard,	a nurse in training
Miss Gilpin,	superintendent of the Infirmary
Doctor Stanton,	of the Hill Farm Sanatorium
Doctor Simms,	his assistant
Mr. Sloan
Peters,	a patient
Mrs. Turner,	matron of the Sanatorium
Miss Bailey	}
Mrs. Abner	} Patients
Flynn	}
Other Patients of the Sanatorium
Mrs. Brennan

(The characters are named in the order in which they appear)

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Act One

Scene One: The Kitchen of the Carmody Home—Evening.

Scene Two: The Reception Room of the Infirmary, Hill Farm Sanatorium—An Evening a Week Later.

Act Two

Scene One: Assembly Room of the Main Building at the Sanatorium—A Morning Four Months Later.

Scene Two: A Crossroads Near the Sanatorium—Midnight of the Same Day.

Act Three

An Isolation Room and Porch at the Sanatorium—An Afternoon Four Months Later.

Time—1910

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