Word: miscreants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
From here on the play moves rapidly. But finally Madame, with her imaginative fancles, subtle emotions, temperamental outbursts, and above all her undying love, wins back her miscreant husband, much to the anger and jealousy of the domestic widow, who pours forth a torrent of abuse on poor Madame's head and in so doing reveals her true nature...