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

by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Gordon.

I hope the Prime Minister will see that. I must learn this clause off by heart now. Teach it to me, will you?

Loveday.

You don’t know the other clauses off by heart, do you?

Gordon.

Yes, of course I learnt them. I couldn’t read them to the Prime Minister, could I? And I’m so nervous, I’d muddle them up unless I just learn them off.

Loveday.

(Horrified.) You don’t intend to say off all the thirty-three clauses of the suggested constitution to the Prime Minister at this first meeting, do you?

Gordon.

(Simply surprised.) Why, yes! I’m to tell him the ideas, aren’t I?