Dunn. Not a bit! I thought of the loss to our Company if it got chipped. There was no sentiment or friendship in the business. Sentiment’s all very well, but there’s no money in it.
Dunn crosses to window, L. C.; Sillocks enters from dining-room R.; lights begin to go slowly down.
Sill. (R. C.) How do you do, Mr. Tompkins. I congratulate you Sir, on the possession of such a gem.
Tomp. (L. C.) Beautiful, is it not?
Sill. (R. C.) Grand! A painting like that——
Tomp. Painting! I am speaking of my Statue, Niobe.
Sill. Oh, I haven’t seen it.
Tomp. (C.) Ah, when you do! Where among your moderns is a work like it? Where among your Sculptors, the peer of Phidias, Praxiteles, Scophas or Polydorus of Rhodes?
Dunn. (L. of table) And which of the whole lot would compare with Edison?
Tomp. Ah, Dunn! You are not familiar with the Elgin Marbles.