sentences:  A repressed and hysterical young woman, under the thumb of her formidable mother, takes his side and falls in love with him.Again Miss Cooper encourages her guests to examine their feelings honestly and face their futures bravely.In an early draft of the play, Rattigan had Major Pollock's misdemeanour not as harassment of women but homosexual importuning; The critic Kenneth Tynan commented at the time of the premiere that the version used then was "as good a handling of sexual abnormality as English playgoers will tolerate."