The Constant Wife

Constance Middleton is beautiful, intelligent, and utterly unconcerned with the fact that her husband is having an affair with her best friend. In this classic biting comedy of manners and mistresses, the delicate balance of love and marriage is upended when a shocking indiscretion is publicly revealed. Rather than humiliating herself and others, she denies the affair, defends the two, and sets about turning bad luck, unfaithful friends, local gossip and a broken heart to her own advantage. The Constant Wife, by W. Somerset Maugham, is a comedy of marital maneuvers in 1920s upper-class London.