PHILIP. Twentieth Century Conduct.

DOLLY. Twentieth Century Children.

PHILIP. Twentieth Century Parents.

DOLLY. Cloth limp, half a dollar.

PHILIP. Or mounted on linen for hard family use, two dollars. No
family should be without them. Read them, Mr. Valentine: they'll
improve your mind.

DOLLY. But not till we've gone, please.

PHILIP. Quite so: we prefer people with unimproved minds. Our own
minds are in that fresh and unspoiled condition.

VALENTINE (dubiously). Hm!

DOLLY (echoing him inquiringly). Hm? Phil: he prefers people whose
minds are improved.

PHILIP. In that case we shall have to introduce him to the other
member of the family: the Woman of the Twentieth Century; our sister
Gloria!

DOLLY (dithyrambically). Nature's masterpiece!

PHILIP. Learning's daughter!