degrading.

GREGORY. I promised--

JUNO. Look here, old chap: I don't say a word against your
mother; and I'm sorry she's dead; but really, you know, most
women are mothers; and they all die some time or other; yet that
doesn't make them infallible authorities on morals, does it?

GREGORY. I was about to say so myself. Let me add that if you do
things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do
them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect
him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what
nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of
things.

JUNO. Lunn: I love your wife; and that's all about it.

GREGORY. Juno: I love yours. What then?

JUNO. Clearly she must never see you again.

MRS. JUNO. Why not?

JUNO. Why not! My love: I'm surprised at you.

MRS. JUNO. Am I to speak only to men who dislike me?

JUNO. Yes: I think that is, properly speaking, a married woman's
duty.