Maude Let's have just the graduating class.
Jack No, I'm dead tired of the push! Let's have a picked crowd,–friends of "the highly contracting parties," you know.
Mrs. De S. We ought to have your professors.
Maude We'd have to invite Grindem, and he's so awfully–
Mrs. De S. Professor Grindem is a very delightful gentleman, Maudie!
Jack (in imitation). Yes, ahem, he has–power–ahem,–power is–power is a wonderful thing, a wonderful thing!
Mrs. De S. Well, as to the decorations.
Maude Smilax from the chandelier–
Jack Don't let's have any smilax. It's too much like funerals.
(Mr. De Smythe returns.)