You can make divorce reasonable and decent: that is
all.
LESBIA. Thank you for nothing. If you will only make marriage
reasonable and decent, you can do as you like about divorce. I
have not stated my deepest objection to marriage; and I dont
intend to. There are certain rights I will not give any person
over me.
REGINALD. Well, I think it jolly hard that a man should support
his wife for years, and lose the chance of getting a really good
wife, and then have her refuse to be a wife to him.
LESBIA. I'm not going to discuss it with you, Rejjy. If your
sense of personal honor doesnt make you understand, nothing will.
SOAMES [implacably] I'm still awaiting my instructions.
They look at one another, each waiting for one of the others to
suggest something. Silence.
REGINALD [blankly] I suppose, after all, marriage is better than
--well, than the usual alternative.
SOAMES [turning fiercely on him] What right have you to say so?
You know that the sins that are wasting and maddening this
unhappy nation are those committed in wedlock.
COLLINS. Well, the single ones cant afford to indulge their
affections the same as married people.
SOAMES. Away with it all, I say. You have your Master's
commandments.
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