Major Barbara

It is after dinner on a January night, in the library in Lady Britomart Undershaft''s house in Wilton Crescent. A large and comfortable settee is in the middle of the room, upholstered in dark leather. A person sitting on it [it is vacant at present] would have, on his right, Lady Britomart''s writing table, with the lady herself busy at it; a smaller writing table behind him on his left; the door...