Alliance Francaise Kenya

Alliance Francaise Kenya

Shiru and her husband were watching a very sad play at Alliance Francaise Kenya – an old-fashioned melodrama about unrequited love in which one of the sweethearts commits suicide and the other is beset with tragedy after bitter tragedy.

Alliance Francaise Kenya
Alliance Francaise Kenya

Before the first act was over every women in the theater was weeping. But Shiru’s husband was unmoved. He wondered why it was only the ladies who were sobbing loudly.

“Ridiculous!” he snorted every few minutes. At one particular scene, as the heroine lay dying in her lover’s arms, and Shiru sobbed aloud, he actually laughed.

Shiru turned to him. “Look,” she cried furiously through her tears, “if you don’t like the play why don’t you go home and at least let me continue enjoying myself!”…

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