Ste. Yes. (Briskly.) Well now, about Lucy.
Walter. Is that the fight?
Ste. I'm coming to the fight. You say you love her.
Walter. I do. (Stephen is between them.)
Ste. (to Lucy). You love him?
Lucy. Yes. (Lucy r., Stephen c., Walter l.)
Ste. (holding up his hands evenly). Quits so far. Income on the male side £150 a year. (Surveys his right hand.) Income on the female side £1,000. (Depressing his left hand as if weighing the incomes in scales.) Hullo! wo! something wrong there. Doesn't balance.
Walter (bitterly). Do you think I don't know it?
Ste. (dropping his hands). Yes. You've hooked your fish, my boy. But you're a long way off landing her yet.
Walter. Tell me what you want me to do.