Yes?
JESSIE
I think Mamma really knows you’re not mercenary, but the real reason for her opposition to you is pretty selfish. I think it’s because she doesn’t want me to marry and go away and leave her alone in the world.
RUPERT
But she wouldn’t be. She’d still have the companionship of your young brother.
JESSIE (shaking her head)
That’d be the same as none. Lancelot seems to have scarcely any sense, you see.
(The settee once more retires.)
RUPERT