Well, if you didn't know your own daughter was married how can you wonder at your ignorance of other people's domestic complications?
MRS. RANKLING.
But that's not all. You have informed us that you are now actually contributing to a nightly entertainment of a volatile description—that you are positively being laughed at in public.
MISS DYOTT.
Isn't it better to be laughed at in public, and paid for it, than to be sniggered at privately for nothing?
MRS. RANKLING.
Mrs. Queckett, you are revealing your true character.
MISS DYOTT.
It is the same as your own—an undervalued wife. Let me open your eyes as mine are opened. We have engaged to love and to honour two men.