Jack. Surely you would not blame me for that which I never had?
Dill. As the lady's father, I must at least inquire of your habits, sir.
Jack. I have no habits; even the good ones are bad enough, and the bad ones are so hard to follow out.
Kathryn. I quite approve so far, Jack.
Jack. I never vote.
Gloria. I have yet to know the man who did. That's why they don't want us to.
Jack. And I am proud to say that I have never done even a single stroke of work.
Kathryn. Oh! But you really must take up some useful occupation, Jack, and go downtown very early in the morning and come back very late every night. Married life would be impracticable otherwise. One could stand a husband in the morning and evening, but a whole day added to each night would be out of the question.
Jack. You don't understand. Business today is done under very bad principles. The proper way, in truth, the only way that a young man of my temperament could be induced to begin work, would be to start right up at the top and go right down to the bottom. It takes so much less time and trouble than the old way of beginning at the bottom and stealing one's way up to the top. Besides, one is just that much more likely to land somewhere.
Kathryn. I wish that I were a man. Here you stand wasting my time talking, when in a few weeks you might learn to be a messenger boy, and grow right up into a millionaire.