Wedgecroft. It needs recognition.
Trebell. What! It's the only thing most people believe in. Talk about superstition! However, there's more life in you. Therefore it's to be schoolmasters.
Wedgecroft. How?
Trebell. Listen again, young man. In the youth of the world, when priests were the teachers of men....
Wedgecroft. [Not to be preached at.] And physicians of men.
Trebell. Shut up.
Wedgecroft. If there's any real reform going, I want my profession made into a state department. I won't shut up for less.
Trebell. [Putting this aside with one finger.] I'll deal with you later. There's still Youth in the world in another sense; but the priests haven't found out the difference yet, so they're wasting most of their time.
Wedgecroft. Religious education won't do now-a-days.
Trebell. What's Now-a-days? You're very dull, Gilbert.