ELSIE. No mother could love him as I do. No one can nurse him as tenderly as I shall.
AUSTIN. Nurse! A broken arm doesn't make an invalid of any one, especially a man in first-class physical condition.
ELSIE. I think it's very cruel of you to belittle Jack's injuries.
EDMUND. I wish you would stop calling him Jack.
ELSIE. It's his name. He wasn't christened John.
EDMUND. I refer to the impropriety of a young lady calling a workman by his Christian name.
ELSIE. As the young lady is going to be married to the workman in the shortest possible time, I fail to see where the impropriety comes in.
EDMUND. That is where we differ, my dear.
ELSIE. About impropriety?
EDMUND. No. About marriage.