[1] The West End cast included Paul Scofield, Madge Brindley, Dinsdale Landen, Megs Jenkins, Harold Scott, Gretchen Franklin, Arthur Lowe, Maureen Delany and Laidman Browne.

[2] Insurance agent Frederick Dyson owns a house in London with his wife.

Among the lodgers is a misery elderly woman, Miss Lummus, who hoards her money in the house.

A version aired 3 March 1959 as part of British television series ITV Play of the Week.

[8] The TV critic for the Sydney Morning Herald thought that the "potential dramatic richness" of the play "was not fully exploited" because the director "had little time—or space—to create the atmosphere which can come much more easily to a stage director".