Selina: It wouldn’t matter. Any town would do. Papa, wouldn’t Ninian make an excellent Mayor?

Lord William: I really can’t say, my dear. I’ve never seen one.

Selina: Ann knows lots. She adores them.

Molyneux: In that case it would be quite proper that her husband should join the company.

Lady Emily: Ann, how silent you are.

Ann: I was always the most silent of the Cathcarts, but even that is enough to get me the reputation of a chatterbox outside the family circle.

Ninian: Uncle William, I am very glad you should be here, as I am thinking of starting a league for combating budding Bolshevism in this country. Your active help would be invaluable to me.

Lord William: Molly and I are too old to see red.

Molyneux: And being autocrats ourselves we approve of Lenin.

Lord William: I suppose you feel bound to fight the only people who hate liberty more than you do.