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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour

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2017
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Mrs. Crowley

Don't be so silly.

Dick

By the way, you don't want to dance with me, do you?

Mrs. Crowley

Certainly not. You dance abominably.

Dick

It's charming of you to say so. It puts me at my ease at once.

Mrs. Crowley

Come and sit on the sofa and talk seriously.

Dick

Ah, you want to flirt with me, Mrs. Crowley.

Mrs. Crowley

Good heavens, what on earth makes you think that?

Dick

It's what a woman always means when she asks you to talk sensibly.

Mrs. Crowley

I can't bear a man who thinks women are in love with him.

Dick

Bless you, I don't think that. I only think they want to marry me.

Mrs. Crowley

That's equally detestable.

Dick

Not at all. However old, ugly, and generally undesirable a man is, he'll find a heap of charming girls who are willing to marry him. Marriage is still the only decent means of livelihood for a really nice girl.

Mrs. Crowley

But, my dear friend, if a woman really makes up her mind to marry a man, nothing on earth can save him.

Dick

Don't say that, you terrify me.

Mrs. Crowley

You need not be in the least alarmed, because I shall refuse you.

Dick

Thanks, awfully. But all the same I don't think I'll risk a proposal.

Mrs. Crowley

My dear Mr. Lomas, your only safety is in immediate flight.

Dick

Why?

Mrs. Crowley

It must be obvious to the meanest intelligence that you've been on the verge of proposing to me for the last month.

Dick

Oh, I assure you, you're quite mistaken.

Mrs. Crowley

Then I shan't come to the play with you to-morrow?

Dick

But I've taken the seats, and I've ordered an exquisite dinner at the Carlton.

Mrs. Crowley

What have you ordered?

Dick

Potage Bisque… [She makes a little face.]

Sole Normande… [She shrugs her shoulders.]

Wild Duck.
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