Ladies and Hussars

The action takes place on the estate of a major where his friends inveterate bachelors and the sisters of the major who came to marry him with his niece meet But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund and then a plan matures to persuade the major to marry at the last moment replacing him with the lieutenant To do this the ladies have woven insidious intrigues At the end of the play the mutual rejection of the ladies and the hussar develops into sympathy and even love