A Summary of the Play

ACT 1

  • Scene 1
    On Rice Pudding and Septimus Hodge

  • Scene 2
    Hannah Jarvis meets Bernard Nightingale

  • Scene 3
    Mr Chater challenges Septimus to a duel

  • Scene 4
    Valentine investigates Thomasina's algebra

 ACT 2

  • Scene 5
    Bernard claims that Lord Byron is a murderer

  • Scene 6
    Mr Chater leaves for the West Indies

  • Scene 7
    Thomasina is taught to waltz