FLORENCE (coldly). I don't believe it, father. That consenting business went out with the flood.
LEO (to Jack). Did you ask my father's consent?
JACK. Yes.
LEO. It's just credible, Flo.
FLORENCE. In England? In the twentieth century? Leo. These quaint old customs linger. Half the world doesn't know how the other half thinks.
AUSTIN (who has been looking on amazed). But aren't you horrified?
LEO. At his asking? No. Merely interested in the survival of an archaism.
AUSTIN. At his selling a match, man!
LEO. A man who would ask papa is capable of anything.
ELSIE. He's not capable of dishonesty.