`Cheating husband’ is a sculpture with an amusing cartoon caricature in an embarrassing situation. It is more likely to laugh at the character and his situation. It has been suggested that in this piece on Love Lane, an errant husband is making a rapid retreat from his lover`s bedroom to prevent his wife from discovering them. The origin of the name, Love Lane is uncertain: certainly it is a very old road, being marked on a map of George Town dated 1801.

One explanation for its unusual name is that it refers to the practice in the nineteenth century of wealthy men (of all races) keeping multiple wives and or mistresses. A towkay`s (employer) principal home might have been on the neighbouring Lebuh Muntri, while the problem of how to house and spend time with each of his consorts, not to mention avoid conflict in thr home was solved with house such as those in Love Lane.