[Gloomily.] We are likely to do that, sooner or later, in any case.

Agnes.

What do you mean?

Ebbsmith.

[Diffidently.] Your—ahem!—somewhat subversive tenets, my love, are not precisely calculated to improve my professional prospects.

Agnes.

What have I to do with your prospects?

Ebbsmith.

The accounts of your meetings which appear in the newspapers are not likely to encourage respectable solicitors to send me briefs.