Wrington Drama Club ARCHIVE Lord Arthur Savile's Crime page 5

... next day, whilst Lord A. is recovering, Baines ascertains Nellie's night off to be Thursday ...

... Lady M. visits to discover whether Lord A's indisposition is genuine - or just another delaying tactic ...

... the illness, we know, is genuine enough, but Sybil is disconcerted to hear another excuse for delay - brought about by Lord A's failure, as yet, to murder anyone before the wedding can take place...

... Sybil regards the matter of successfully murdering someone to be far less complicated ... take a lesson from Mary Queen of Scots, who, quite simply, blew her husband up ...

... so Lord A. sticks a pin in the list of his relatives to see which of them should be exploded ...

... Herr Winkelkopf arrives to offer to supply explosives in shape of, perhaps, a toy ball, an umbrella ...

... the Dean disapproves of playing around with balls if this delays the wedding ...

... and departs with an umbrella, which fails to explode ...which enrages Lord A. ... causing him to...

... cast the offending object into the garden ...