MAGNUS
Not me, Loo!
MRS. FELIX
If I had brought you up properly instead of leaving you to snobbish servants and fashionable incubators, you might be some man’s blessing instead of curse! Plain words, Fanny! May they start you thinking and keep you from ruining the mind and killing the body of some good man like your father, who died a bankrupt, and—though our fashionable physician friends made it look otherwise—a suicide! (To the others)—All of you knew this?
MAGNUS
Yes—
[Vanillity bows his head.
JUDGE CRITTY (clearing his throat)
Why—
FANNY (tears in her voice)