and you should have heard the way she went on about it. She said
it was downright immoral, and that she knew the sort of woman
that encourages boys to sit on the hearthrug and make love to
her. She was just preparing Teddy's mind to poison it about me.

HE. Let us be just to Georgina, dearest

SHE. Let her deserve it first. Just to Georgina, indeed!

HE. She really sees the world in that way. That is her
punishment.

SHE. How can it be her punishment when she likes it? It'll be my
punishment when she brings that budget of poems to Teddy. I wish
you'd have some sense, and sympathize with my position a little.

HE. [going away from the piano and beginning to walk about rather
testily] My dear: I really don't care about Georgina or about
Teddy. All these squabbles belong to a plane on which I am, as
you say, no use. I have counted the cost; and I do not fear the
consequences. After all, what is there to fear? Where is the
difficulty? What can Georgina do? What can your husband do? What
can anybody do?

SHE. Do you mean to say that you propose that we should walk
right bang up to Teddy and tell him we're going away together?

HE. Yes. What can be simpler?

SHE. And do you think for a moment he'd stand it, like that