A choice of evils, dear; of course, none of those costly well-kept wives on your visiting list will call upon me. But instead of one day at home, instead of making a tired husband work for me, I'll have all my days free to work with him, like the old-fashioned woman you admire! Instead of being an expense, I'll be a help to him; instead of being separated by marriage and divergent interests, we'll be united by love and common peril.... Isn't that the orthodox way to gain character, Theodore?
John
Oh, this is all damned nonsense! Look here, you've either got to marry this fellow now or else go away and never see him again; never, never!
Helen
Just what I thought, John. I intended never to see him again. That was why I let you send me abroad. But I'll never, never do it again. [Smiling like an engaged girl.] It was perfectly dreadful! Ernest couldn't get along without me at all, poor old thing. And I, why, I nearly died.
John
Then you'll have to be married, that's all.
The Others
Why, of course you'll have to, that's all.
Helen