LEONARD. The young generation is knocking at our doors, Mr. Broome.

BROOME. What?

LEONARD. Yours is an interesting type of Conservatism.

BROOME. I’m not a Conservative. I’m a radical.

MRS. BROOME. You voted Tory last time.

BROOME. Yes, and what have they done for me? I don’t hold with Socialism but I may be druv to it.

MRS. BROOME. We came to hear about you, Mary?

BROOME. And what’s your perfession, sir, if I may ask?

LEONARD. Well, it’s rather hard to define, Mr. Broome. What am I, Mary?

MARY. He writes things.