Excerpt from The Coming of Gabrielle: A Comedy

Self-love, man's guardian angel, is averse from such sincerity as might lead us to attribute our failures to some broken thread or tangle in the mind's woof, directing our attention instead to the justice with which Nature frames her tallies, each special strength being balanced by a like weakness, and calling us to admire this marvellous accountancy, for which the French have a ready-made phrase, "Le defaut de ses qualites."

Now one day whilst self-love was spinning specious theories that would lay bare my failure to write plays that pleased me, the friend walking at my side said, interrupting my subtleties: "All you say may be true, but you haven't given the seriousness to the writing of plays that you have to your narratives." His words pierced my conscience, and I said: "The Strike at Arlingford was written for no more inspiring reason than that Mr. G. R. Sims told a journalist he would contribute ?100 to the Independent Theatre if I wrote a play in three acts. The Bending of the Bough was needed to secure an annual performance at the Irish Literary Theatre, the play we had counted on not being considered worthy of production.

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