ETHEL. So have you.
MRS. P. What a delightful reconciliation!
EDWIN. Yes, it is delightful, Mrs. Plunger, to discover in one’s wife a woman who’s as amiable after marriage as before.
MRS. P. Oh, Ethel always had the reputation of an amiable woman. People said, when I was quite a child, she was an amiable woman.
ETHEL. (aside to EDWIN) Never mind her, she doesn’t know that Captain Plunger first proposed to me.
EDWIN. What, in his whiskers?
ETHEL. Yes.
EDWIN. And you rejected them?
ETHEL. For you!
EDWIN. I’ve licked the whiskers! Bravo! “See the conquering hero comes, sound the trumpets, beat the drums!” (band strikes up again) Oh, no, don’t, please.