The Courier.

The Doctor.

The Countess.
'I don't trouble myself, you see, to invest fictitious family names.
My characters are sufficiently distinguished by their social titles, and by the striking contrast which they present one with another.
The First Act opens-- 'No! Before I open the First Act, I must announce, injustice to myself, that this Play is entirely the work of my own invention.

I scorn to borrow from actual events; and, what is more extraordinary still, I have not stolen one of my ideas from the Modern French drama.

As the manager of an English theatre, you will naturally refuse to believe this.