Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Geoffrey Lymes Over course of has become exasperated by shallowness and superficiality of wife marriage, Fact2: wife does nothing to entitle relationship husband to divorce her, Fact3: Geoffrey 's old college friend Ernest Melton and Elma arrive at Lymes country home for weekend visit, Fact4: Ernest to seems charmed and captivated by ludicrous airs and pretentions while Anne is thrilled to have found appreciative audience Geoffrey 's amusement, Fact5: Geoffrey confronts Ernest expressing shock and disgust at friend 's conduct
Output (English): Over the course of their marriage, Geoffrey Lymes Walls has become increasingly exasperated by the shallowness and superficiality of his wife Anne Nesbitt. He despairs of her ridiculous affectations, socialclimbing aspirations and constant embarrassing attempts in company to show herself as an elegant, cultured sophisticate. He feels trapped in a relationship where, as he observes, a wife does nothing to entitle her husband to divorce her, but a thousand things that entitle him to murder her. Geoffreys old college friend Ernest Melton Stewart and his French wife Elma Arnaud arrive at the Lymes country home for a weekend visit. Ernest is an archetypal upperclass twit, wealthy but not overly bright, and completely cowed and dominated by the selfassured and outspoken Elma. He too finds married life less than satisfactory. Anne immediately goes into full desperatetoimpress mode and, to Geoffreys amusement, Ernest seems completely charmed and captivated by her ludicrous airs and pretentions, while Anne is thrilled to have found an appreciative audience. Geoffrey meanwhile is strongly attracted to the feisty Elma, and his interest is apparently reciprocated. As the pair discuss their respective spouses with withering scorn, they realise that all four are married to the wrong person. They hatch a plan to throw Anne and Ernest together as much as possible in the hope that they will compromise themselves. Matters reach a head when it appears that Ernest and Anne are about to run away together. Geoffrey sees this as the perfect opportunity to achieve his aims without any blame attaching to himself or Elma. He confronts Ernest in feigned outrage, expressing his shock and disgust at his friends conduct, while slyly stressing that if Ernest and Anne wish to be together, he can donthing to prevent it and will give Anne a divorce. To Geoffreys astonishment, the confused Ernest says that while he finds Anne pleasant and amusing, he does not love her and there has never been any question of the two eloping. The tables are turned, as Geoffrey is forced to admit to Ernest that he and Elma are in love.