JUNO. It's quite plain to anyone but an imbecile. If you tell me
I've done something wrong you insult me. But if you say that
something that I did is wrong you simply raise a question of
morals. I tell you flatly if you say I did anything wrong you
will have to fight me. In fact I think we ought to fight anyhow.
I don't particularly want to; but I feel that England expects us
to.

GREGORY. I won't fight. If you beat me my wife would share my
humiliation. If I beat you, she would sympathize with you and
loathe me for my brutality.

MRS. LUNN. Not to mention that as we are human beings and not
reindeer or barndoor fowl, if two men presumed to fight for us we
couldn't decently ever speak to either of them again.

GREGORY. Besides, neither of us could beat the other, as we
neither of us know how to fight. We should only blacken each
other's eyes and make fools of ourselves.

JUNO. I don't admit that. Every Englishman can use his fists.

GREGORY. You're an Englishman. Can you use yours?

JUNO. I presume so: I never tried.

MRS. JUNO. You never told me you couldn't fight, Tops. I thought
you were an accomplished boxer.

JUNO. My precious: I never gave you any ground for such a belief.