Rain
by W Somerset Maugham, John Colton, Clemence Randolph

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This is the foreboding tale about a missionary who encounters a raucous prostitute on a quarantined Pacific isle.

Her contempt for him changes when she realizes that he has discovered bits of her life and can have her returned to prison in the States.

So she plays up to him and asks to be forgiven and converted.

The missionary deserts his wife and another white couple for several days as he prays Sadie into a sickly stupor.

She is truly contrite, and resolves to give up her life of sin.

But on the last night, after she and the Reverend enter her room to pray, something happens.

The next day Sadie is her same blatant self again, accusing all men of being pigs, and that the Reverend is discovered on the beach, a suicide.

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Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573013683
ISBN-10 0573013683

Rain is a play written by W Somerset Maugham and published by Samuel French .

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