'An excellent man of business.'
'For stocks and shares or boots, but not for art.'
'He's a steadying influence.'
'Art is steady enough, if it is art.'
'My dear child!'
'If you don't know that then you are not an artist.'
'Oh! Would you call Charles Mann steady?'
'I should think of the play first and last.'
'There's no one to write them.'
'I should scour the country for imaginative people and make them think in terms of the theatre. Besides, there are people!'