FANNY
Oh, mother!—please!
MRS. FELIX
Why, as soon as women realize that modern laws of business, applied to the home, would make every man a thief and every woman a prostitute, they’ll stop urging their husbands to make more than the next man—
MAGNUS
Loo! I hereby subscribe any reasonable sum you say to the cause of suffrage—thereby planning my own downfall!—
MRS. FELIX
Or showing your contempt!—Well! you’re amusing anyhow, John Magnus. If somebody could make you take things seriously, you’d be as great a man as your subsidized newspapers say you are—
JUDGE CRITTY
Really, my dear Mrs. Felix;—even the hysterical newspapers admit Mr. Magnus is a great man!