In Shaw's words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it.

"[1] The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships.

Sibthorpe, in contrast, says that such mixed feelings are fine, as long as one acts according to moral principles.

[2] The four characters were played by Claude King, Adolphus Vane-Tempest, Miriam Lewes and Geraldine Olliffe.

Henderson also thought it a poor work: "The conversations are forced and unnatural: people do not say such things in real life.