I thought The Devil knew everything—
THE DEVIL
Everything worth knowing—but I can’t keep track of the petty things.
AGNUS
Petty? John Magnus—while not the richest man—controls the money-market. Petty?
THE DEVIL
Any man with brains enough to control money-markets might be a fifth-rate scientist, a fourth-rate painter, or a third-rate author! He must be petty if he’s willing to be nothing but a first-class financier. One thing I never was—a financier! Couldn’t waste my time. Financiers, lawyers, stock-jobbers, and thieves generally are the tumors on the human race! When I get through training women, their superman sons will be the surgeons who remove those tumors—(Suddenly) I see! She wants you to give up science for a paying job under Magnus—eh?
AGNUS
Why—
THE DEVIL