What! going to keep on working? Will he let the woman he loves work!
Helen
[demure]
Well, you see, he says I'm "too good" to loaf.
John
Humph! who'll take care of your home when you're at work? Who'll take care of your work when you're at home. Look at it practically. To maintain such a home as he needs on such a salary as he has—why, it would take all your time, all your energy. To keep him in his class you'll have to drop out of your own, become a household drudge, a servant.
Helen
And if I am willing?
John
Then where's your intellectual companionship? How'll you help his work? Expense for him, disillusionment for both. If you're the woman you pretend to be, you won't marry that man!