JACK. Different? She'll not like changing her ways. Old people don't like change.
ELSIE (callously). No, but it's good for them.
JACK. My getting married 'ull be change enough. We must be careful not to upset her.
ELSIE. You're very fond of your mother, Jack.
JACK. I try to do my duty.
ELSIE (gladly). It's only duty, then?
JACK. Only! Honour thy father and thy mother that—
ELSIE. Yes, but I don't want to make old bones. And that honouring business is a bit fly-blown. We spell it humour your parents nowadays and not too much of that. A badly brought up parent's worse than a spoilt child.
JACK. Of course, you're joking, Elsie, and I know I'm not a judge of taste, but I don't somehow think we ought to make fun of our parents.
ELSIE. I wasn't joking, Jack. If your mother's going to stay with us, she'll have to realize the century she's living in.