Loveday.
Because when a man is a man he should respect himself as one man respects another.
Gordon.
You are wonderful—women generally try to make a man feel a worm.
Loveday.
(Hastily.) What I like best about this splendid scheme of yours is, that even Germany will have to accept it when it is proposed to her, because she is all the while demanding “only her own national safety,” and pretending she has no aggressive desires, so she can’t have the face to refuse to join in—and yet when she does her militarism will be choked. Nothing could destroy all militarism more completely than this!
Gordon.
Yes. And she would give herself away so utterly if she stood out!
Loveday.
And if she did stand out, she’d—