Any suggestion you like to make, sir, I’ll report to my firm. We are out to supply to this country what she requires. It’s a fresh, growing country with fresh-growing needs, and the firm that doesn’t try to foist off continental models into it, but supplies those needs, will get some business.
Gordon.
That is so.
Varlie.
Why, the folk around here don’t know what it is to spend money. There’s a power of unconscious demands right here waiting the supplies. You need to learn how to require luxuries.
Gordon.
(Hotly.) And waste good work making things we are happier without! No! Till this war is settled up, and after it, till everyone is fed and clothed decently, work must be spent on those jobs, not on senseless fripperies which enslave us to make some soulless idiot rich!
Varlie.
(Strolls towards seat, down left.) Say! Have you got any lemonade? I’m as dry as a fish. (Sits.)
(Nora and Loveday sit near him.)