Very well, then. Take a piece of clean glass, and rub the stains with it. Then, after plenty of friction, iron with a hot iron.
Really? How simple! But I was told that turpentine is best?
May we smoke now? Somehow I never felt a desire to smoke while we were waiting for the birth of that baby.
We never had a chance to do so. How absurd! Of course one would not want to smoke at a funeral, but on such an occasion as this we really——
Smoking is a most pernicious habit. Both of you are young men, and ought to guard your health. There are so many occasions in after-life when health is everything.
But tobacco gives one a stimulus?
Believe me, it is a very unhealthy stimulus. I too used to smoke when I was young and foolish.
Mamma, how the baby cries! How it does cry! Does it want milk?
[The young people burst into renewed laughter, while the Elderly Lady regards them with a stern air of reproval.]