MRS. DE MULLIN
Janet, you’re trying to screen him.
JANET
Dearest mother, you talk like a sentimental novel.
MRS. DE MULLIN
(indignantly)
And he’s to be allowed to marry Bertha Aldenham, just as if this had never happened?
JANET
Why not? It’s not her fault, is it? And girls find it difficult enough to get married nowadays, goodness knows.