A husband's philosophy that life is a game and his role is that of an unemotional observer is put to the test when his wife draws him into a duel.

Two hilarious one-act plays (What Shall We Tell Caroline? and The Dock Brief) in which an inept lawyer defends a man who is guilty of murdering and a foul-tempered, but loving, husband seeks to shelter his wife and daughter from the realities of life.

An Irish fisherman becomes smitten by an English woman he has glimpsed only once at a wedding.