Uncle Everett, you know nothing about it! You think you understand the new generation. The only generation you understand is the one which clamored for "Woman's Rights." [To Ernest.] I obey you already—every day of my life, do I not, dear? [Looking up into his face.] You're my "boss," aren't you, Ernest? [To Judge.] But I do object to contracting by law for what is better done by love.
Judge
[laughs fondly]
But suppose the promise to obey were left out?
Helen
But the contract to love—[To Theodore.] that's so much worse, it seems to me. Obedience is a mere matter of will, is it not? But when a man promises to love until death——
Theodore
Are you so cold, so scientific, so unsexed, that you cannot trust the man you love?
Helen
Why, Theodore, if I didn't trust him I'd marry him! Contracts are not for those who trust—they're for those who don't.