Marlowe and Hastings in 'She Stoops to Conquer'.

Marlow is ostensibly the hero of a play. A respectable fellow who comes to Hardcastle's home to meet Kate Hardcastle. Possessed of a strange contradictory character, wherein he is mortified to speak to any "modest" woman, but is lively and excitable in conversation with barmaids or other low-class women. Hastings is friend of Marlow's, and lover of Constance Neville. A decent fellow who is willing to marry Constance even without her money.