[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.