"Married?"
"And I shall take upon myself the task of selecting the girl who will rule him hereafter."
"John, what do you mean? Surely—oh, that is nonsense. Tell me who she is?"
"Pauline Potter," calmly.
"Why, that's the actress."
"True."
"The actress who professed to be so madly in love with one Doctor John Craig."
"And as the said Craig is already taken, she is left out in the cold. Now you behold my little scheme. We are happy—why should not these two people be the same?"
"Why, indeed?"
"Their greatest fault lies in loving not wisely but too well. This has caused them to sin. Now, in order to prevent any future plots that may give us trouble, I purpose to so arrange it that Sir Lionel shall have a wife and Pauline a husband."