Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LAND OF PROMISE

_By the same Author_

THE UNKNOWN
THE CIRCLE
THE EXPLORER
JACK STRAW
LADY FREDERICK
LANDED GENTRY
THE TENTH MAN
A MAN OF HONOUR
MRS. DOT
PENELOPE
SMITH
CÆSAR’S WIFE

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

THE LAND OF
PROMISE

A COMEDY IN FOUR ACTS

BY
W. S. MAUGHAM

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1922

TO
IRENE VANBRUGH

_All applications regarding the Performance Rights of this play should be addressed to Mr. R. Golding Bright, 20, Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W.C. 2._

This play was produced on February 26, 1914, at the Duke of York’s Theatre, with the following cast:

NORAH MARSH Irene Vanbrugh.
EDWARD MARSH C. V. France.
GERTRUDE MARSH Marion Ashworth.
FRANK TAYLOR Godfrey Tearle.
REGINALD HORNBY Basil Foster.
BENJAMIN TROTTER George Tully.
SIDNEY SHARP J. Woodall-Birde.
EMMA SHARP Mary Rorke.
JAMES WICKHAM Athol Stewart.
DOROTHY WICKHAM Netta Westcott.
AGNES PRINGLE Lena Halliday.
CLEMENT WYNNE Charles Goodwin.
KATE Marion Christie Murray.

CHARACTERS

NORAH MARSH.
EDWARD MARSH.
GERTRUDE MARSH.
FRANK TAYLOR.
REGINALD HORNBY.
BENJAMIN TROTTER.
SIDNEY SHARP.
EMMA SHARP.
JAMES WICKHAM.
DOROTHY WICKHAM.
AGNES PRINGLE.
CLEMENT WYNNE.
KATE.

The action of the play takes place at Tunbridge Wells, and later in Canada.

THE LAND OF PROMISE