An early Shaw Work relating to middle and upper class marriages in the 1880's and 90*s. A charming man has two different women at his disposal, but does not want to marry either. Thet discover each other, but neither woman wishes to give him up. At last Our cad does marry one of them, to resolve the question but by Act III some four years later, the marriage is about to be ended, and the original pair of lovers agree to take up their affair as it was four years previously. The play was not performed until eight years after being written, due to england's censorship rules at the time.. ( )