.... . . And this was a very few years back." Shaw's comment is highly significant of his attitude. " On the reply to that fatuous but not unnatural speech...woman of that sort is already the same at three as at thirty-three, and that however she may have found by experience that her nature is in conflict with...

.... . . And this was a very few years back." Shaw's comment is highly significant of his attitude. " On the reply to that fatuous but not unnatural speech depended the whole question of Mr. Pinero't rank as a dramatist. One can imagine how, in a play by a master-hand, Paula's reply would...

...wasn't a wholesome one; you hadn't an impulse that didn't tend towards good," etc., and then said, "On the reply to that fatuous but not unnatural speech...that sort is already the same at three as she is at thirtythree"—and so on. Yes,—one can imagine only too clearly how, in a play by one master-hand,...

...paroxysm of weep ing"). l6 Shaw clearly wanted Pinero to write a different play, one in which Paula would have opened Tanqueray's foolish eyes to the...already the same at three as she is at thirty-three": he wanted Paula to assert that she was perfectly "valid" to herself. Not given the words by the author,...