Despite the title, this volume holds two of Maupassant’s plays. In the first, the lover Jacques de Randol slips into Madame de Sallus’s drawing room and the couple’s intrigue meets a calculating husband; in Musotte, the painter Jean Martinel learns on his wedding day that his former mistress is dying after bearing his child.
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