MRS KNOX. The floods in France!
GILBEY. My Bobby in Wormwood Scrubbs!
KNOX. Margaret in Holloway!
GILBEY. And now my footman tells me his brother's a duke!
KNOX. | No!
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MRS KNOX. | Whats that?
GILBEY. Just before he let you in. A duke! Here has everything been respectable from the beginning of the world, as you may say, to the present day; and all of a sudden everything is turned upside down.
MRS KNOX. It's like in the book of Revelations. But I do say that unless people have happiness within themselves, all the earthquakes, all the floods, and all the prisons in the world cant make them really happy.
KNOX. It isnt alone the curious things that are happening, but the unnatural way people are taking them. Why, theres Margaret been in prison, and she hasnt time to go to all the invitations shes had from people that never asked her before.
GILBEY. I never knew we could live without being respectable.
MRS GILBEY. Oh, Rob, what a thing to say! Who says we're not respectable?