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Justice 209
cial wrongs has now also found dramatic interpre
tation in Galsworthy s
"
Justice."
The play opens in the office of James How
Sons, solicitors. The senior clerk, Robert Coke-
son, discovers that a check he had issued for nine
pounds has been forged to ninety. By elimina
tion, suspicion falls upon William Falder, the
junior office clerk. The latter is in love with a
married woman, the abused and ill-treated wife of
a brutal drunkard. Pressed by his employer, a
severe yet not unkindly man, Falder confesses the
forgery, pleading the dire necessity of his sweet
heart, Ruth Honeywill, with whom he had planned
to escape to save her from the unbearable bru
tality of her husband.
Falder. Oh! sir, look over it! I ll pay the money
back I will, I promise.
Notwithstanding the entreaties of young Walter
How, who holds modern ideas, his father, a
moral and law-respecting citizen, turns Falder
over to the police.
The second act, in the court room, shows Justice
in the very process of manufacture. The scene
equals in dramatic power and psychologic verity
the great court scene in
"
Resurrection." Young
Falder, a nervous and rather weakly youth of
twenty-three, stands before the bar. Ruth, his
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