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3 p. ℓ., 128 p.; 19 cm.

Summary

Shall we join the ladies is an absorbing mystery, with just a pinch of incisive English wit to give it the proper savor. The action involves thirteen well-to-do people attending a dinner party. The frivolous and gay air is shattered rather suddenly when the host announces that all of them were at Monte Carlo several years ago on the night when his brother was murdered. Then the host proceeds to implicate one after another of his guests, making them stumble into pits he has carefully laid in his speech. He is cool, patient, and witty as the frightful tension increases and his guests drop their masks.
Half an hour opens with Richard Garson and his wife Lady Lilian in the midst of a terrible row. Lady Lilian requests a divorce but Richard says that to avoid scandal he will never consent. When Richard departs Lilian writes a letter of farewell, encloses her wedding ring and rushes off to the nearby flat of Hugh Paton, an adventurous young engineer, with whom Lilian has clearly been having an affair. Hugh is off to Egypt tomorrow and Lilian vows to go with him. To say any more would spoil the story. The key point is that Lilian must eventually return home to host a dinner party set to start within half an hour of her row with Richard. Will she or can she carry it off?

Series Statement

Uniform edition of the plays of J. M. Barrie

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One-act plays

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Contents

Shall we join the ladies?--Half an hour.--Seven women.--Old friends.

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^^^29018668^

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Harvard Library