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When Raina hears the news, she turns to the soldier. After the soldier and Raina exchange some words, Louka calls from outside the door she says that several soldiers want to search the house and investigate a report that an enemy Serbian soldier was seen climbing her balcony. But as Raina is reading in bed, shots are heard, there is a noise at the balcony window, and a bedraggled enemy soldier with a gun appears and threatens to kill her if she makes a sound. Raina promises to do so later, and Louka leaves. At this very moment, the maid, Louka, rushes in with the news that the Serbs are being chased through the streets and that it is necessary to lock up the house and all of the windows. Raina is so impressed with the noble deeds of her fiancé that she fears that she might never be able to live up to his nobility. As the play opens, Catherine Petkoff and her daughter, Raina, have just heard that the Bulgarians have scored a tremendous victory in a cavalry charge led by Raina’s fiancé, Major Sergius Saranoff, who is in the same regiment as Raina’s father, Major Paul Petkoff. The play begins in the bedroom of Raina Petkoff in a Bulgarian town in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Summary of “Arms and the man” by George Bernard Shaw