Coward famously collaborated with the Lunts on Design for Living but could never get the magic back though he tried. Maybe if you liked the Lunts and saw it this was fun. It's not great to read. For some reason it's set in the nineteenth century as if to hide the fact the story is a version of Private Lives - a couple married to other people run off together and their partners, the heroes, set off in pursuit and they fall in love.
It was a drag to read. The characters weren't funny not terrible individual (one liked trains another was an industrialist). I didn't like these people and the action felt padded. Maybe as a one act play this would've worked.
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