Judge
[stopping John]
Wait!... You've already done your best to destroy your sister—but you've utterly failed. They have done nothing wrong—as yet. Why, they are the finest, truest, noblest pair of lovers I ever met! Now, aren't they, Theodore?
Theodore
I can't say that I call Helen's ideas of marriage "noble," exactly!
Judge
[grandiloquent]
She is willing to sacrifice even marriage for his career. Isn't that noble? And he! willing to sacrifice even his career for marriage. Both noble, if you ask me.
John
[loud]