Underpants, The (Bentley)
by Carl Sternheim, Eric Bentley

A civil servant, whose job depends on sobriety and right conduct is embarrassed one day when his wife's underpants fall by accident to the sidewalk.

Soon they have two new boarders; a barber and another man, who happened to witness the embarrassing moment.

Both subsequently make love to the wife, and, overwhelmed, she assents.

But another lady in the house and various others keep interrupting her trysts, and none of them ever amounts to anything.

The author points the satire at both the husband and the church going wife in a final scene of subtle comedy.