Molyneux: She is unique. A woman we all adore, who can be described as good.
Selina: Do you adore Ann, Mr. Jordan?
Jordan: Yes.
Lord William: Well, I wish she weren’t up to so many good works. As for her virtue it is a “Trespassers will be prosecuted” signal that you can see for miles.
Selina: Papa, I think you’re very vulgar.
Tim: Ann is so radiantly uncensoriously good.
Molyneux: Ann is a damned good-looking woman.
Lord William: But she does lead a silly life. I did think that once the war was over and she had stopped nursing cholera in Siberia we should be all right. But what has peace brought us? Why, the house is positively infested with Mayors and clergymen and cranks and old maids, and when she’s tired of talking to her Socialist friends, she thinks of Ninian, plasters on the family jewels, resumes the rôle of the Lord Lieutenant’s wife and entertains the county. Disgusting, I call it.
Molyneux: William and I have never believed in entertaining the county.
Lord William: I confess I am sometimes entertained by it.