# ID This British Short Story, Please **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-british-short-story-please/650733 "2013-02-18T21:11:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-british-short-story-please/650733/1 "2013-02-18T21:11:14Z")
I was trying to remember a short story I read in HS…I think it may have been written by John Galsworthy (perhaps). Anyway, it was about a young couple just married, visiting a lawyer’s office to set up a will. Then, years later, the same couple is getting divorced…and visits the same lawyer’s office. Anybody know the name and author of this story? ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-british-short-story-please/650733/2 "2013-02-19T04:26:11Z")
That actually sounds like a short play by James Barrie, titled _The Will_. Included in [The Twelve-Pound Look and other plays](http://archive.org/stream/twelvepoundlooka00barruoft/twelvepoundlooka00barruoft_djvu.txt) (full scanned text at link, with some errors). ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-british-short-story-please/650733/3 "2013-02-19T16:24:22Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > That actually sounds like a short play by James Barrie, titled _The Will_. Included in [The Twelve-Pound Look and other plays](http://archive.org/stream/twelvepoundlooka00barruoft/twelvepoundlooka00barruoft_djvu.txt) (full scanned text at link, with some errors). Thanks..it was the play you linked to. Great story..sad,but reflective of reality.