Conquest; Or, A Piece of Jade; a New Play in Three Acts

by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Loveday.

I’m not his relative.

Duchess.

Hoity-toity.

Loveday.

(Smiling.) That doesn’t react with me any longer. (Coaxing.) Come now, be an angel and introduce Gordon to the Prime Minister. Don’t say anything about your suspicions that he is a crank. Just say he is a nice young man from New Zealand.

Duchess.

And what am I to say about you? Or are you dying to be sacrificed on the altar of friendship and have nothing said about you?

Loveday.