It was very popular, was published in book form (unlike most plays from this period) and was performed overseas.

[4] The Brisbane Sundal Mail said the play "dropped its tail in the final act, but could stand repetition.

Locale midway between life and death; characters, the unborn, the living, and the dead; moral — boosting the birthrate.

[6] A young married couple, Clem and Carla Lascelles, visit a medical specialist, Sir Ernest Brown.

They meet a woman, Miss Edwards, whose fiancée was killed in World War One and who sacrificed herself saving a little boy in front of a train, and realise they might be dead themselves.