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Overruled by George Bernard Shaw
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JUNO [sternly] This is no way to take your husband's
unfaithfulness. [To Lunn] You ought to teach your wife better.
Where's her feelings? It's scandalous.

GREGORY. What about your own conduct, pray?

JUNO. I don't defend it; and there's an end of the matter.

GREGORY. Well, upon my soul! What difference does your not
defending it make?

JUNO. A fundamental difference. To serious people I may appear
wicked. I don't defend myself: I am wicked, though not bad at
heart. To thoughtless people I may even appear comic. Well, laugh
at me: I have given myself away. But Mrs. Lunn seems to have no
opinion at all about me. She doesn't seem to know whether I'm
wicked or comic. She doesn't seem to care. She has no more sense.
I say it's not right. I repeat, I have sinned; and I'm prepared
to suffer.

MRS. JUNO. Have you really sinned, Tops?

MRS. LUNN [blandly] I don't remember your sinning. I have a
shocking bad memory for trifles; but I think I should remember
that--if you mean me.

JUNO [raging] Trifles! I have fallen in love with a monster.

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