THE LAWYER. I should say not!
THE DAUGHTER. Why don't men do something to improve their lot?
THE LAWYER. Oh, they try, of course, but all the improvers end in prison or in the madhouse——
THE DAUGHTER. Who puts them in prison?
THE LAWYER. All the right-minded, all the respectable——
THE DAUGHTER. Who sends them to the madhouse?
THE LAWYER. Their own despair when they grasp the hopelessness of their efforts.
THE DAUGHTER. Has the thought not occurred to anybody, that for secret reasons it must be as it is?
THE LAWYER. Yes, those who are well off always think so.
THE DAUGHTER. That it is all right as it is?