Vivian. Please confine your statements to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Are we to understand that your mother never washes her face?
Dorothy. Of course she does. She isn’t a pig.
Vivian. Will the ladies please make a mental note of the candidate’s last statement for future reference? Her mother isn’t a pig! Then we are to understand that your mother, being neither a pig nor a woman, is a man? How passing strange! Does she wear a beard?
Dorothy. No, she doesn’t, and she isn’t a man.
Vivian. Third person, singular number, neuter gender. Miss Dennis, your turn.
Florence. How old is your grandmother’s cat?
Dorothy. She hasn’t got a cat.
Florence. So the poor old lady can’t afford to keep a cat! Does she reside in the poorhouse, or has she a tumble-down hovel of her own?
Dorothy. Neither.
Florence. You don’t mean that she’s a beggar on the the street, I hope?