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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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Admiral
Oh, I see.
Lady Frederick
The fact is, my brother Gerald has asked your daughter to marry him, and she has accepted.
Admiral
Rose is a minx, Lady Frederick, and she's much too young to marry.
Lady Frederick
Now don't fly into a passion. We're going to talk it over quite calmly.
Admiral
I tell you I won't hear of it. The boy's penniless.
Lady Frederick
That's why it's so lucky you're rich.
Admiral
Eh?
Lady Frederick
You've been talking of buying a place in Ireland. You couldn't want anything nicer than Gerald's – gravel soil, you know. And you simply dote on Elizabethan architecture.
Admiral
I can't bear it.
Lady Frederick
How fortunate, then, that the house was burnt down in the eighteenth century and rebuilt in the best Georgian style.
Admiral
Ugh.
Lady Frederick
And you'd love to have little grandsons to dandle on your knee.
Admiral
How do I know they wouldn't be girls?
Lady Frederick
Oh, it's most unusual in our family.
Admiral
I tell you I won't hear of it.
Lady Frederick
You know, it's not bad to have the oldest baronetcy in the country but one.
Admiral
I suppose I shall have to pack Rose off to England.
Lady Frederick
And break her heart?
Admiral
Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
Lady Frederick
Did you ever know my husband, Admiral?
Admiral
Yes.
Lady Frederick
I was married to him at seventeen because my mother thought it a good match, and I was desperately in love with another man. Before we'd been married a fortnight he came home blind drunk, and I had never seen a drunken man before. Then I found out he was a confirmed tippler. I was so ashamed. If you only knew what my life was for the ten years I lived with him. I've done a lot of foolish things in my time, but, my God, I have suffered.
Admiral
Yes, I know, I know.
Lady Frederick
And believe me, when two young things love one another it's better to let them marry. Love is so very rare in this world. One really ought to make the most of it when it's there.
Admiral
I'm very sorry, but I've made up my mind.
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