Miss Sillerton. What is the reason for so much divorce nowadays?
Ruth. Marriage is the principal one.
Blanche. I don't believe in divorce, either.
Miss Sillerton. My dear, no woman married to as handsome a man as Mr. Sterling would.
Trotter. You people are all out of date! More people get divorced nowadays than get married.
Blanche. Too many people do—that's the trouble. I meant what I said when I was married—"for better, for worse, till death us do part."—What is the opera Monday?
Trotter. Something of Wagner's. He's a Dodo bird! Bores me to death! Not catchy enough music for me.
Mrs. Hunter. You'd adore him if you went to Bayreuth. Which was that opera, Clara, we heard at Bayreuth last summer? Was it Faust or Lohengrin! They play those two so much here I'm always getting them mixed!
Miss Sillerton. Wagner didn't write Faust!
Mrs. Hunter. Didn't he? I thought he had; he's written so many operas the last few seasons!