Agnes.
Do you make a point of always being at home to receive my guests?
Ebbsmith.
Those Anarchist people whom you are constantly asking to tea? Certainly not.
Agnes.
[With triumphant logic.] Then may I ask why I should be at home to receive the Jawkinses?
Ebbsmith.
My dear, you surely realise that the cases are hardly parallel. The only time I was present at one of your Revolutionary tea-parties the guests consisted of a Hyde Park orator who dropped his h’s, a cobbler who had turned Socialist by way of increasing his importance in the eyes of the community, three ladies who were either living apart from their husbands or living with the husbands of other ladies, and a Polish refugee who had been convicted, quite justly, of murder. You cannot pretend to compare the Jawkinses with such people.
Agnes.
Indeed, I can. [Rhetorically.] In a properly organized Society——