Theodore
Sex is a necessary evil, I admit, but——
Ernest
[laughs]
Evil! The God-given impulse which accounts for you sitting there, for me sitting here? The splendid instinct which writes our poetry, builds our civilizations, founds our churches—the very heart and soul of life is evil. Really, Theodore, I don't know much about religion, but that strikes me as blasphemy against the Creator.
Theodore
Very scientific, my boy, very modern; but the Church believed in marriage before Science was born.
Ernest
As a compromise with evil?
Theodore