OLAVUS. Always equally amiable! Will you please ask Reginald to come here?
CHRISTINE. I'll do whatever you command.
OLAVUS. And as I never command, but merely ask....
CHRISTINE. If you would command your precious son now and then, he might be a little more polite and obedient to his mother.
OLAVUS. Reginald is hard, I admit, but you do wrong in trying to educate him to suit your own high pleasure.
CHRISTINE. Do you side with the children against their parents?
OLAVUS. If I am not mistaken, I have always done so when the natural rights of the children were concerned.
CHRISTINE. Have the children any natural rights to anything?
OLAVUS. Of course, they have! You haven't forgotten how we....
CHRISTINE. Yes, I have forgotten every bit of that old tommy-rot! I have forgotten how you swore to love me. I have forgotten the noise made about the pope's beard, and the stealing of the church silver, and the humbug with the bells, and the pure faith, and roast ducks and cackling swans, and martyrs with a taste for fighting, and the following of Christ with wine and women, and the scratching of eyes and tearing of hair, until we now have twenty-five brand new faiths in place of a holy Catholic Church.... I have forgotten every bit of it!