Aunt. Bad luck?

Horace. I might have been smoking all this time. (Lights up.) There’s nothing like a good cigar, after all.

Aunt. There’s nothing like a good wife.

Horace. Well, of course I don’t know anything about that.

Aunt. I believe you prefer the cigar.

Horace. To women? In some respects I think I do.

Aunt. Oh, do you?

Horace. For one thing, a cigar doesn’t talk. And when you have finished with one, you can begin another.

(Enter Minnie L.)

Minnie. I can’t find your cigar case anywhere. You’ve found it!