The Magistrate: A Farce in Three Acts

by Arthur Wing Pinero

You know better, sir. As a matter of fact, that balcony can’t bear a man like me.

Vale.

Which shows that inanimate objects have a great deal of common-sense, sir.

Lukyn.

You don’t prove it in your own instance, Captain Vale.

Vale.

That’s a verbal quibble, sir.

[They talk angrily.

Agatha Posket.