Garside's Career: A Comedy in Four Acts

by Harold Brighouse

Mrs. G. (grimly). Yes, but you don't.

Peter. Don't what?

Mrs. G. You don't sec what she means.

Peter (confidently smiling at Margaret). Oh, Margaret means what she says.

Mrs. G. And more. She doesn't want you to go into Parliament.

Peter (puzzled, looking at Margaret). Doesn't what———? (Slightly pausing.) Speak, Margaret.

Mar. No. I don't want you to go into Parliament.

Mrs. G. (triumphantly). What did I tell you?

Peter. But Margaret, why not? Don't you see what a chance it is? Take it, and I go up, up, Fortune, Fame, anything—the prospects are tremendous. Miss it, and I sink baek to obscurity. You can't want me to miss a chance like that.

Mar. I wanted to be married to you.