family. Lewis and Florence marry, but the marriage is full of tensions, and she is well aware, as he is not, until later in the play, of Teresa's feelings for him. Florence's conflict between her concerned instincts towards her cousins and her controlling instincts, possessiveness and snobbery is a key point of the plot. Lewis come to realise his love for Teresa, but she dies of heart failure, leaving him bereft. Critical reception The Times thought the adaptation well done, but regretted that turning the novel into a play necessarily removed some of its subtleties and ambiguities. The paper's reviewer found that the anarchic Sangers and Dodd were shown in a more unequivocally favourable light than in the novel and the unkind aspects of Florence's nature portrayed more strongly than her kindnesses. The Stage thought much less of the novel than did The Times ("cannot be classed much above … Ethel M. Dell"), and found the dramatisation "episodical in treatment", though the reviewer predicted a popular success. The Era called the play "one of those rare events in the theatre, a really satisfactory and satisfying dramatisation of a novel … there is not a trace of sentimentality". Notes, references and sources Notes References Sources External links Full text of The Constant Nymph at HathiTrust Digital Library 1926 plays British plays Plays by Margaret Kennedy West End plays