LEO. Yes. Isn't it?
AUSTIN (wildly). Good heavens, do you young people care about nothing?
LEO. We're tremendously in earnest about a lot of things, only they're not the things you're in earnest about. There are fashions in shibboleths just as much as in socks, and you're a little out of date in both.
AUSTIN. Possibly. But blood is still thicker than water, Leo. Metherell is a man of the people and——
LEO. Oh, my dear father, don't talk about the people as if they inhabited an inferior universe. The class bogey is one of the ghosts we've laid to-day.
AUSTIN. Indeed. I'd an idea it was rather rampant.
LEO. I believe it used to be. As a matter of fact, I do object to Metherell.
AUSTIN. Oh! You have some sense left.
FLORENCE. I don't. I only wish I was in Elsie's shoes.
LEO. Was I speaking, Flo, or were you?