Helen
[snatching proofs away]
Object? Why, this makes my reputation in the scientific world.
Ernest
Well, didn't you make mine?
Helen
[still glowing with pride, but touched by his unexpected generosity]
You can't imagine what this means to me. It's so hard for a woman to get any recognition. Most men have but one use for us. If we get interested in anything but them it is "unwomanly"—they call it "a fad." But they've got to take me seriously now. My name with Ernest Hamilton's!
[Points to her name and swaggers back and forth.
Ernest