Question. Has the Problem Play a solution?
Answer. Certainly; it answers the purposes of the author and the manager.
Q. From this I take it that it is invariably successful?
A. Well, it is never a failure; or, rather, hardly ever.
Q. Can you make your meaning a little plainer?
A. If it is not invariably a triumph of coin, it is a success of esteem. The house is crowded for a couple of months.
Q. And after?
A. The Problem Play is not expected to have an after.
Q. What is the essence of such a creation?
A. The unconventional treatment of the conventional.