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The Skin Game by John Galsworthy
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ROLF. [Distracted] It looks like it, though.

JILL. Is that all you came to say?

ROLF. Suppose we joined, couldn't we stop it?

JILL. I don't feel like joining.

ROLF. We did shake hands.

JILL. One can't fight and not grow bitter.

ROLF. I don't feel bitter.

JILL. Wait; you'll feel it soon enough.

ROLF. Why? [Attentively] About Chloe? I do think your mother's
manner to her is----

JILL. Well?

ROLF. Snobbish. [JILL laughs.]
She may not be your class; and that's just why it's
snobbish.

JILL. I think you'd better shut up.

ROLF. What my father said was true; your mother's rudeness to her
that day she came here, has made both him and Charlie ever so much
more bitter.
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