![]() ![]() He leaves to prepare the servants, and Kate laments that she might have to spend her life with a boring man. Hardcastle considers this a virtue, and in fact insists to her that Marlow is, while generous, brave, and handsome, best known for being reserved. Hardcastle has chosen Marlow as husband for her, but she is immediately worried that their interview will be overly formal and dull. Marlow, son of Hardcastle's old friend Charles Marlow, to their house that evening in order to court Kate. Hardcastle then gives her news: he has invited Mr. Kate reminds him that they have an agreement: in the morning she dresses as she likes in order to welcome friends, while in the evening she dresses plainly in order to please his tastes. Kate (labeled in the play as Miss Hardcastle, but called Kate here for ease) enters dressed in a lavish gown, which her father finds troublesome. Hardcastle describes them as "a pair that only spoil each other." He blames it partially on how the modern fashions have infiltrated their lives, and worries that even his own daughter Kate has been infected by those fashions because of her having lived for a few years in London. Hardcastle forbids him to go, but he insists he has the stronger willpower, and drags her out.Īlone, Mr. Both adults request him not associate with such "low" company, but he defends the liveliness of his pub companions as "not so low." Mrs. Tony passes by and tells them he is off to the Three Pigeons, a local pub. Hardcastle believes him frail and needing of sympathy. They both grant that he is too inclined towards drink and jokes, but Mrs. Hardcastle (Tony's natural mother) defends him, saying education is unnecessary for him since he needs only plan for spending his sizable fortune, and she begs her husband to be easier on Tony. Hardcastle finds his roguish ways grating, and laments how the boy is too given to practical jokes. They joke about her age, which she wishes to downplay, and speak of her son from a first marriage, Tony Lumpkin. Hardcastle mocks him for his love of old-fashioned trends, so much that he keeps his house in such a way that it "looks for all the world like an inn." He tires even of the pretentious London trends that find their way into his removed country community. Hardcastle is perturbed at her husband's refusal to take trips into London, while he insists he is not interested in the "vanity and affectation" of the city. Hardcastle enter in the midst of a pleasant argument. The play opens in its primary setting, a chamber in the "old-fashioned" country house of Mr. ![]()
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