The Constant Wife
by W. Somerset Maugham
A Play in Three Acts
Constance Middleton, is a calm, intelligent and self-possessed wife of a successful London doctor. Knowing full well of her husband’s infidelity with her best friend Marie-Louise, Constance purposefully maintains the fiction held by her other friends, mother and sister that she has no idea of the affair. However, when confronted by Marie-Louise’s jealous husband, Constance reacts in a way not expected by her husband, mother or sister…