Characters

             ANDREY ANDREYEVITCH SHIPUCHIN, Chairman of the N——             Joint Stock
             Bank, a middle-aged man, with a monocle
             TATIANA ALEXEYEVNA, his wife, aged 25
             KUSMA NICOLAIEVITCH KHIRIN, the bank's aged book-keeper
             NASTASYA FYODOROVNA MERCHUTKINA, an old woman wearing             an old-fashioned cloak
             DIRECTORS OF THE BANK
             EMPLOYEES OF THE BANK