Tom.

My cupboard upstairs is choked with 'em.

Imogen.

Won't anyone take a fancy——?

Tom.

Not a sufficiently violent fancy.

Imogen.

You know, the speeches were so short and had such ordinary words in them, in the plays you used to read to me—no big opportunity for the leading lady, Wrench.

Tom.

M' yes. I strive to make my people talk and behave like live people, don't I-?