The "Celibate" Club (Dialogue).
Characters.
Miss Hagar Hunch, President; Miss Dora Darlish, Secretary; Mrs Egerton and Mrs Clare Graham, Visitors; and the "Celibates," eight in number.
Scene I.—The Club Room.
Miss Hunch. Oh, Mrs Egerton, you are just in time. We are now to take the oath binding ourselves to refuse all offers of marriage.
Mrs Egerton. Perhaps I had better retire; as wife, and mother of a family, I——
Miss Hunch. Certainly not; we welcome any witness, and, after all, we owe much to married women, since everyone of them is a Curtius who, by a leap into the chasm of publicity, may save a doomed multitude!
Mrs Clare Graham (laughing). Gracious! I did not know I could leap anywhere. Pray tell me how it is done.