Margaret. You mean you’ll prevent Kit marrying Sydney—?
Rector. It depends on you, Mrs. Fairfield. I won’t let him marry the child of a woman who remarries while her husband is alive.
Margaret. But the church allows it?
Miss Fairfield. [Correcting her] Winks at it, Margaret.
Rector. [With dignity] “Winks” is hardly the word—
Margaret. Then what word would you use, Mr. Pumphrey?
Rector. I am not concerned with words.
Margaret. But I want to know. I care about my church. It lets me and it doesn’t let me—what does it mean?
Rector. [Much moved] I am not concerned with meanings, Mrs. Fairfield. I am concerned with my own conscience.
Miss Fairfield. Margaret—you’ve no business to upset the Rector. Why don’t you tell him that the situation has changed?