The Profligate by Arthur Wing Pinero audiobook.

Genre: drama

Arthur Wing Pinero's The Profligate is a sharp Victorian problem play about love tested by the past and a society that measures men and women by different rules. On the eve of his marriage, polished gentleman Dunstan Renshaw stands poised to begin a respectable new life with Leslie Brudenell, an innocent young woman from a sheltered home. Only Hugh Murray, Dunstan's close friend and best man, knows why the wedding should not go forward: Dunstan's earlier recklessness left real damage behind, and the consequences are walking back into his life. When Janet Preece, a woman Dunstan once wronged, appears desperate for justice and recognition, Murray is forced into an agonizing choice between loyalty and truth. After the wedding, the newlyweds retreat to Italy for their honeymoon, but the refuge proves fragile as old acquaintances, new temptations, and buried facts converge. As Leslie begins to sense the shadows around her husband, the play drives toward a tense moral reckoning in which confession, reputation, and forgiveness are weighed against betrayal and irreparable harm.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:46:35) Chapter 2

(01:20:11) Chapter 3

(01:53:52) Chapter 4

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