LEONARD. I don’t see that a scrap with George Truefit would help much. I’ve lost Mary. That’s plain.
TIMBRELL. Well, well. I’ve no more to say.
LEONARD. It has been an extraordinarily interesting episode. The most stimulating thing that ever happened to me. I must thank you for that, Mary.
MRS. TIMBRELL. [Turning suddenly on LEONARD.] Doesn’t it hurt you. Can you get outside it like that?
LEONARD. Oh! Yes. It hurts me splendidly.
TIMBRELL. Your conduct is despicable, sir. The man who allows his wife to leave him is not a man.
LEONARD. [Snappishly.] Oh! Don’t talk rubbish. Your wife left you long ago. She never came to you. You’ve never had a wife.
TIMBRELL. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you. I pray that I may never understand you.
LEONARD. Of course you don’t want to understand. That’s just it. I think sometimes that people like you are just as intelligent as we are but you’re timid, you daren’t let your thoughts stray, you have secrets from yourselves. Well, mother, I shall have to look to you now Mary’s gone.
MRS. TIMBRELL. I can do nothing for you. You’ve ceased to be a child.