_Jane_ Mrs. Warburton's maid

_The Hopeful_ A baby

_William_ A stable-boy

_Fashionable People_ Necessary for a dinner party

_Celebrities_ Also necessary for a dinner party

_Unfashionables_ Police, cabbies, grooms, clerks,
etc.



TIME--Within the past ten years.

SCENE--Washington, D.C., and its environs.




I

INTRODUCES MY HERO


If you will carefully observe any map of the world that is divided
into inches at so many miles to the inch, you will be surprised as
you calculate the distance between that enchanting Paris of France