Jack Copley (when left alone with his spouse): "Kitty, I wonder,
why you invited Egeria to travel in the same party with Atlas."

Mrs. Jack (fencing): "Pooh! Atlas is safe anywhere."

Jack: "He is a man."

Mrs. Jack: "No; he is a reformer."

Jack: "Even reformers fall in love."

Mrs. Jack: "Not unless they can find a woman to reform. Egeria is
too nearly perfect to attract Atlas; besides, what does it matter,
anyway?"

Jack: "It matters a good deal if it makes him unhappy; he is too
good a fellow."

Mrs. Jack: "I've lived twenty-five years and I have never seen a
man's unhappiness last more than six months, and I have never seen
a woman make a wound in a man's heart that another woman couldn't
heal. The modern young man is as tough as--well, I can't think of
anything tough enough to compare him to. I've always thought it a
pity that the material of which men's hearts is made couldn't be
utilized for manufacturing purposes; think of its value for hinges,
or for the toes of little boys' boots, or the heels of their
stockings!"

Jack: "I should think you had just been jilted, my dear; how has
Atlas offended you?"