LEONARD. Why shouldn’t she be a happy mother without fear and without shame? Mary, don’t make that ridiculous mistake of thinking yourself disgraced.
MARY. But I am disgraced.
LEONARD. You are not—Not in the eyes of any reasonable human being.
MARY. Then the people I know aren’t reasonable.
LEONARD. Have you a father and mother?
MARY. Yes.
LEONARD. And they would—they are—
MARY. They are very respectable.
LEONARD. I see, I see. Yes.
MRS. TIMBRELL. Didn’t you tell me you were ‘keeping company’ with someone?