FIRST SCENE. THE COTTAGE ON THE FRONTIER. PREAMBLE. The place is France. The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-the year of the war between France and Germany. The persons are: Captain Arnault, of the French army; Surgeon Surville, of the French ambulance; Surgeon Wetzel, of the German army; Mercy Merrick, attached as nurse to the French ambulance; and Grace Roseberry, a travelling lady on her way to England. B |