OF MORTAL CONSEQUENCE

“The ending is too dreadful for words, “ he apologized, “it would shock you too much.” He dared not disclose it. As for the tedium of what passed before, we must judge for ourselves. Believe only that it was a fitting and necessary prelude to the end. “You must bear with me, as I must bear with the shock on your behalf.”

** A budding London playwright explaining the aborted conclusion to his one-act play.