Further pokes at the Liberals are taken in "Conu Leonida faţă cu reacţiunea" ("Mr. Leonida Faces the Reaction"), a play centered on Leonida and his wife Efimiţa, an elderly and radical couple of the Bucharest "petite bourgeoisie" who, when listening to the noise of a street brawl while tucked into bed, interpret it to mean the start of a "coup d'état" against the Liberal government. Believing that, on some level, he would have to suffer the consequences of ""The Reaction"", Mr. Leonida hatches out an escape plan: