[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.