Denham.
(painting again) Marriage must certainly be modified. A woman should have some honourable way of escape, when her husband gets tired of her.
Mrs. Tremaine.
(laughing) How delicately you put it! But the wife? If you had to bear all you so chivalrously inflict on us in "honourable" marriage, I wonder how many marriages there would be?
Denham.
Instinct would be too strong for us still. But we should outscheme Nature. We should invent. What has a woman ever invented since the beginning of the world? Well, you can easily rail us out of marriage. How will you live then?
Mrs. Tremaine.
As we are trying to live now.
Denham.
I believe woman's great ambition is to do all the work of the world, and maintain man in idleness.