Selina: Women?
Mrs. Martineau: Woman!
Jordan: Some women.
Molyneux: The election wasn’t lost on you, Jordan; you learnt to qualify.
Selina: Do please tell us a little more. Are the women you take seriously serious women?
Lord William: Selina, you are my daughter, and in every sense of the word, my creation. I have told you before now that your cousin Ann is the only serious woman in the world. I am for the moment using the term woman as a form of praise. There are, of course, many serious persons of the female sex.
Tim: I don’t call Ann serious. She bubbles over with gaiety.
Mrs. Martineau: But she takes things seriously.
Selina: She is good.