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Overruled by George Bernard Shaw
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I'd rather you didn't keep on saying so.

JUNO. Is there then no hope for me?

MRS. LUNN. Oh, yes. Gregory has an idea that married women keep
lists of the men they'll marry if they become widows. I'll put
your name down, if that will satisfy you.

JUNO. Is the list a long one?

MRS. LUNN. Do you mean the real list? Not the one I show to
Gregory: there are hundreds of names on that; but the little
private list that he'd better not see?

JUNO. Oh, will you really put me on that? Say you will.

MRS. LUNN. Well, perhaps I will. [He kisses her hand]. Now don't
begin abusing the privilege.

JUNO. May I call you by your Christian name?

MRS. LUNN. No: it's too long. You can't go about calling a woman
Seraphita.

JUNO [ecstatically] Seraphita!

MRS. LUNN. I used to be called Sally at home; but when I married
a man named Lunn, of course that became ridiculous. That's my one
little pet joke. Call me Mrs. Lunn for short. And change the
subject, or I shall go to sleep.
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