You will burn your boats, as one might say.
SOAMES. We should never burn our boats. It is death in life.
COLLINS. Well, Father, I will say for you that you have views of
your own and are not afraid to out with them. But some of us are
of a more cheerful disposition. On the Borough Council now, you
would be in a minority of one. You must take human nature as it
is.
SOAMES. Upon what compulsion must I? I'll take divine nature as
it is. I'll not hold a candle to the devil.
THE BISHOP. Thats a very unchristian way of treating the devil.
REGINALD. Well, we dont seem to be getting any further, do we?
THE BISHOP. Will you give it up and get married, Edith?
EDITH. No. What I propose seems to me quite reasonable.
THE BISHOP. And you, Lesbia?
LESBIA. Never.
MRS BRIDGENORTH. Never is a long word, Lesbia. Dont say it.
LESBIA [with a flash of temper] Dont pity me, Alice, please. As I
said before, I am an English lady, quite prepared to do without
anything I cant have on honorable conditions.
SOAMES [after a silence expressive of utter deadlock] I am still
awaiting my instructions.
REGINALD. Well, we dont seem to be getting along, do we?
LEO [out of patience] You said that before, Rejjy.
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