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The play follows a prosperous merchant family in a country house through conversations and scenes that reveal domestic routines, social obligations, and financial anxieties. Ambitious landscape projects, household management, matchmaking and visitors expose tensions between large expenditures and frugal oversight, while local businessmen warn of speculative risks affecting a major trading firm. Interactions among the consul, his daughters and acquaintances illuminate generational differences, social pretensions, and the fragile balance between public reputation and private concerns in a bourgeois milieu.
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