Lady John. It would sound less equivocal, Lydia, if you added that the money is to build baths in our Shelter for Homeless Women.
Mrs. F. Homeless women?
Lady John. Yes, in the most insanitary part of Soho.
Freddy. Oh—a—really.
Farn. It doesn't sound quite in Miss Levering's line!
Lady John. My dear boy, you know as little about what's in a woman's line as most men.
Freddy (laughing). Oh, I say!
Lord J. (indulgently to Mr. Freddy and Farnborough). Philanthropy in a woman like Miss Levering is a form of restlessness. But she's a nice creature; all she needs is to get some "nice" fella to marry her.
Mrs. F. (laughing as she hangs on her husband's arm). Yes, a woman needs a balance wheel—if only to keep her from flying back to town on a hot day like this.
Lord J. Who's proposing anything so——