BRIAN. After all, sir, at my age one is naturally experimenting, and trying to find one's (with a laugh)—well, it sounds priggish, but one's medium of expression. I shall find out what I want to do directly, but I think I shall always be able to earn enough to live on. Well, I have for the last three years.
GEORGE. I see, and now you want to experiment with a wife, and you propose to start experimenting with my niece?
BRIAN (with a shrug). Well, of course, if you—
OLIVIA. You could help the experiment, darling, by giving Dinah a good allowance until she's twenty-one.
GEORGE. Help the experiment! I don't want to help the experiment.
OLIVIA (apologetically). Oh, I thought you did.
GEORGE. You will talk as if I was made of money. What with taxes always going up and rents always going down, it's as much as we can do to rub along as we are, without making allowances to everybody who thinks she wants to get married. (To BRIAN) And that's thanks to you, my friend.
BRIAN (surprised) To me?
OLIVIA. You never told me, darling. What's Brian been doing?
DINAH (indignantly). He hasn't been doing anything.