sorry. I find that in this business, somehow or other, there is a
disastrous separation between my moral principles and my
conduct.

JUNO. There's nothing disastrous about it. It doesn't matter
about your principles if your conduct is all right.

GREGORY. Bosh! It doesn't matter about your principles if your
conduct is all right.

JUNO. But your conduct isn't all right; and my principles are.

GREGORY. What's the good of your principles being right if they
won't work?

JUNO. They WILL work, sir, if you exercise self-sacrifice.

GREGORY. Oh yes: if, if, if. You know jolly well that
self-sacrifice doesn't work either when you really want a thing.
How much have you sacrificed yourself, pray?

MRS. LUNN. Oh, a great deal, Gregory. Don't be rude. Mr. Juno is
a very nice man: he has been most attentive to me on the voyage.

GREGORY. And Mrs. Juno's a very nice woman. She oughtn't to be;
but she is.

JUNO. Why oughtn't she to be a nice woman, pray?

GREGORY. I mean she oughtn't to be nice to me. And you oughtn't