I must be allowed to decide.
REGINALD. Theyll be his children as well as yours, you know.
LEO. Dont be indelicate, Rejjy.
EDITH. You are forgetting the very important matter of money.
COLLINS. Ah! Money! Now we're coming to it!
EDITH. When I'm married I shall have practically no money except
what I shall earn.
THE BISHOP. I'm sorry, Cecil. A Bishop's daughter is a poor man's
daughter.
SYKES. But surely you dont imagine that I'm going to let Edith
work when we're married. I'm not a rich man; but Ive enough to
spare her that; and when my mother dies--
EDITH. What nonsense! Of course I shall work when I'm married. I
shall keep your house.
SYKES. Oh, that!
REGINALD. You call that work?
EDITH. Dont you? Leo used to do it for nothing; so no doubt you
thought it wasnt work at all. Does your present housekeeper do it
for nothing?
REGINALD. But it will be part of your duty as a wife.
EDITH. Not under this contract. I'll not have it so. If I'm to
keep the house, I shall expect Cecil to pay me at least as well
as he would pay a hired housekeeper. I'll not go begging to him
every time I want a new dress or a cab fare, as so many women
have to do.
SYKES. You know very well I would grudge you nothing, Edie.
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