Do You Take One Lump of Resolve, or Two?
Charles IsherwoodJune 17, 2005: Love and sex are commodities only as durable as cut flowers - and perhaps no more significant - in the immaculate drawing room where the unromantic comedy "The Constant Wife" unfolds. The pragmatic heroine of W. Somerset Maugham's 1926 play, Constance Middleton, is a well-groomed Englishwoman who refuses to let the scandal of a straying husband mar the perfection of her emotional décor. She simply rearranges the furniture around the uncomfortable fact, and carries on, wiser perhaps, but certainly not sadder.
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