Mrs. Wangel.
[Appalled at this way of speaking of her husband.] But you never asked Dr. Wangel for anything?
Brown.
No fear. Too old a hand for that. He’d have put me in prison for trying to extort money.
Mrs. Wangel.
How could you expect him to give you money if you didn’t ask for it?
Brown.
I didn’t suppose he was an absolute fool. When a man has a crazy wife he can’t be such a born natural as to suppose that another man really wants her to go away with him. He wants the price of a drink. That’s what he wants. But old Quangle-Wangle was too clever for me. He wouldn’t part.
Mrs. Wangel.
Wouldn’t part husband and wife, you mean?