He said charity wasn't giving away what you didn't want!
Mrs. Gilliam
It was good coffee, too! Our second best coffee!
Mrs. Tice
Of course, what John objected to was the reference to rents—to charging clerks and bookkeepers more than they could pay for "wretched little flats." John says he doesn't come here to be told how to run his business!
Mrs. Gilliam
Quite right! And I don't pay seven thousand dollars a year to hear my husband's coffee roasted!
[They all laugh—the more because of the previous tension. Mrs. Gilliam, surprised at first, sees the point, and joins in the laughter.]
Well, you understand what I mean!
Dr. Wadham