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My senior year of college, I was in a one-act play called "The Dying Wife" by Laurette Taylor, which enacts this very joke.
I played the wife. A freshman girl played my husband.
I still remember my big speech:
"It was on our honeymoon. I wanted to climb the Jung-Frau. You didn't want to, but I wanted to, and I did. I did. Indeed, I did. The man I climed it with... Silvanus Saxon. Everything seemed so... exalted. So... above the earth. The ice melted at my touch like... rose leaves. Rose leaves, Morrey! In my hair and in my brain. And I... And he... Oh, Morrey! We betrayed you!"
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