"You are taking a risk. You don't know me at all. What you want is a dumb wife, and, if you remember the play, she was not at all a comfortable possession."
"I'm taking no greater risk than you are."
"Oh, yes. I know you. I've studied you, off and on, for five years. You have barely looked at me. Think of Mrs. Abercrombie Brendon and Miss Morton. Would you be apologetic for me with them?"
"Not a bit. I saw you handle them at the pageant."
"And the studio crowd? Remember I've been a sort of servant to them."
"They're all good sports. They all know you, and what you are. We can count on them."
"I have no family. Have you any relations?"
"No."
"I think we ought to face all the possibilities."
Jerry felt a trifle uncomfortable. If he had counted on any "King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid" scene, it had not worked out at all. He seemed to be defending himself to Jane, while she conducted the interview.