 This feeling only intensified with the introduction in later lessons of the characters known as "Mr. and Mrs. Smith".To her husband's astonishment, Mrs. Smith informed him that they had several children, that they lived in the vicinity of London, that their name was Smith, that Mr. Smith was a clerk, and that they had a servant, Mary, who was English like themselves.What was remarkable about Mrs. Smith, Ionesco thought, was her eminently methodical procedure in her quest for truth.