You wouldn't notice it from seeing the play.

I didn't; but it came to me when I read the book.

I think the play's absolutely untrue, yes, even to those characters, in one respect.' 'And what's that ?' asked Drake.
Clarice glanced round.

Her neighbours, she perceived, were talking.
Mrs.Willoughby was too far off to hear.

She dropped her voice to a yet lower key and said, 'They make the husband kill the lover in the duel.
It's always the end in books and plays; but really the opposite of that would happen.' Drake leant back in his chair and stared at her.