Excerpt from The Weaker Sex: A Comedy in Three Acts John Wood to take the new Court Theatre for a season in the spring of 1889, they signalized their reappear ance in town by the production of Mr. Pinero's comedy. It was on Saturday, March 16, 1889, that this play was first seen in London, but it unust be noted that it was not presented here exactly as it had been in Manchester; for after the provincial trial Mr. Pinero abolished the con ventional happy ending he had originally contrived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.