KATY. (Announcing.) Mr. and Mrs. Becker!
MILDRED. Oh, Sophie, I am so glad to see you. I want to be the first to tell you of my engagement to Mr. Melvin, since Josephine has already let the cat out of the bag.
SOPHIE. How lovely! Let me kiss you. Marriage is true happiness for a woman. We must have a little talk together, you and I. (Turning to others.) How do you all do, you dear good people.
MRS. TILSBURY. How do you do, Miss Slavinsky.
SOPHIE. Mrs. Becker, please, Mrs. Theodore Halowell Becker. We have just been married by the Mayor and I stopped here to see Mildred before we start on the honeymoon. Nicht Wahr, dearest? (To Becker.)
MRS. THOM. You have married that man—that monster who tramples the rights of women beneath his feet like worms in the dust!
SOPHIE. We have—what you call it?—swapped votes, like two men, a Republican and a Democrat, when they want to go play golf on election day. They two agree, not one will vote. Then everything is cancelled. So Mr. Becker and me—he is a great big opponent to the cause and I am a strong advocate. If we both keep quiet the result is zero, see?
MRS. BROWN. Ah, yes, you and Mr. Becker have become two adjacent hemispheres.
SOPHIE. (After a slight pause.) Yes, every brain consists of two hemispheres, and I am proud to be a hemisphere of Mr. Becker’s great, big, splendid brain.
MILDRED. This is such a beautiful surprise. Sophie, dear, do tell us how it all happened.