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((AN IDEAL HUSBAND The persons of the play THE EARL OF CAVERSHAM, K.G. LADY CHILTERN VISCOUNT GORING, his son LADY MARKBY SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., THE COUNTESS OF BASILDON Under-Secretary for Foreign MRS. MARCHMONT Affairs MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Sir VICOMTE DE NANJAC, Attache at Robert Chiltern's sister French Embassy in London MRS. CHEVELEY MR. MONTFORD MASON, Butler to Sir Robert Chiltern PHIPPS, Lord Goring's servant JAMES and HAROLD, Footmen ACT ONE)) SCENE : The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square, London. The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours. TIME : The present. The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven y . . .