Feministic nonsense! The old-fashioned womanly woman——

Ernest

Sentimental twaddle! What makes it more "womanly" to do menial work for men than intellectual work with them?

[Helen delighted, applauds noiselessly.

Theodore

All the same, I'll bet you wouldn't let a little thing like that stand in your way if you really cared for a woman enough to marry her.

Ernest

[benign and secure]

But, as it happens, I don't. Nothing could induce me to marry.

[Helen raises her chin, her eyes glitter dangerously.