The action takes place in Belinda's country-house in Devonshire at the
end of April, the first act in the garden and the second and last acts
in the hall 

[Illustration] 

BELINDA 

ACT I 

_It is a lovely April afternoon--a foretaste of summer--in_
BELINDA'S garden_. 

BETTY, _a middle-aged servant, is fastening a hammock--its first
appearance this year--to a tree down_ L.  _In front there is a
garden-table, with a deck-chair on the right of it and a straight-backed
one to the left.  There are books, papers, and magazines on the
table_.  BELINDA, _of whom we shall know more presently, is on the
other side of the open windows which look on to the garden, talking