[Refusing to be interrupted.] Or is it to be honest,

simple, kind——

Pauline.

But I have no reason for believing Mr. Smith to have been more honest than the general run of army contractors.

Claude.

[Continuing.] Gentle in speech and action as in name?

Oh, it is this that makes a gentleman!

And Mr. Smith, although he kept a shop,

May very properly be so described.

Pauline.