AGNUS (sarcastically)
Oh, you weren’t Ibsen, then?
THE DEVIL
Oh, yes, I was Ibsen. But that was in the cause of women’s education—to champion the New Woman—
AGNUS
Is there any great man you were not?
THE DEVIL
No great ones. Well, my work on woman has been effective. She’s learned in fifty years what men took thousands to learn. In another fifty she’ll be men’s mental equal. And her sons will be Supermen. Then the world will be able to get along without me—
[There is a ring at the door.
AGNUS (jumps up and is about to open the door, but remembers his changed appearance; he peers agonizedly out of window and starts) It’s Fanny—Fanny!