Aunt. Arthur is the exception, at least I hope so.
Minnie. Oh, he is very different from Horace.
Horace. I should hope he was, and you’ll find it out, my young lady.
Aunt. You have had a very narrow escape. Arthur is a good man. I feel that. As for Horace, he is a pig!
Minnie. Oh, Auntie, don’t say that!
Aunt. Pig! I do say it! I will say it! It describes him exactly. Horace is a pig!
(Lights and interior dark.)
Messenger. As you observed, Aunt Martha is a sensible woman.
Horace. She’s a perfect fool! Women are all alike. Mean and selfish, and sly and narrow-minded—oh, fearfully narrow-minded! I’m jolly well out of it, and I’m jolly glad to be so jolly well out of it! One thing I know—I’ll never speak to another woman again as long as I live.