Selina: You mean when you want one person to have two?
Molyneux: Precisely.
Selina: Ninian would be perfect if we didn’t have so much of him. He never fails one.
Lord William: He combines under the cover of an English gentleman—
Selina: Of a Lord Lieutenant.
Lord William: I accept the amendment, of a Lord Lieutenant; the ridiculous and the sublime.
Selina: And that, mind you, without taking the proverbial step.
Tim: He is our host and Ann’s husband.
Mrs. Martineau: Tim, you are becoming a prig.
Tim: Perhaps, but we must think of Ann.