Frankie: Well—if you go away with somebody—and it’s a failure, and you part, for the girl it’s not just as you were, is it?
John: No. I see what you mean ... it seems to me, chastity is a thing nobody has any right to inflict upon anybody else.
Gwen: Hear hear.
John: It may be fine when it’s undertaken from real personal belief, but it’s not worth tuppence when it’s meant a tremendous effort of starvation that achieves nothing but starvation.
Margaret: You know a lot of girls are quite tranquil and untouched by all this, until it’s thrust under their noses.
Frankie: That’s it. That’s where you’re so wrong, John. You don’t save girls from trouble, you make it for them.
Gwen: Quite a lot aren’t tranquil. It’s wicked to keep people from love, when you needn’t.
John: Surely you have to deal with every case on its merits. When I have a daughter——
Frankie: When you have a daughter, you won’t be talking like this.
John: I shall want my daughter to be happily married; and this is the real answer to you, Frankie. If you want a happy, lasting marriage, the love-making part of it has got to be successful.