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Outline of Play
The chalk garden which totally defeats Mrs St Maugham’s attempts to cultivate it is symbolic of her failure with her daughter Olivia and her granddaughter Laurel. Plants, like humans, need a sympathetic understanding and she does not know how to give.
The an Mis Madrigal, with no references and a lost past, is hired as companion to Laurel. She has the precious understanding of both garden and of Laurel and both begin to bloom, but her good work is, however, imperilled by the arrival of a visitor.
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