Noted critic Leslie Rees wrote of the play that: An undertone of passionate resentment against injustice and coercion is heard, but there is also a mannered wit and an acute realisation of character, a clear-cut picture of the times.
Against these considerable merits must be men tioned a sparseness of action, especially the failure to satisfy expectations in the second act.
However, the texture of the speech in this play is so fine, the quality of compassion so moving, that such a fault does not, to my mind at any rate, become paramount.
Wireless Weekly called it "A well-constructed play, and the dialogue has a lambent, graceful quality.
But one feels that Miss Cusack’s passion for discussion and the graceful phrase holds up the action too often.