Everybody’s talking. Cazenove is bored to death.

SYLVESTER.

I don’t think his wife is.

VICTORIA.

Ah, that will come in time; and when it does, I mean to take Margery in hand. She is neglected shamefully. She hasn’t discovered it yet, but all her friends have.

SYLVESTER.

They’re generally first in the field.

VICTORIA.

If a husband ignores his wife, the wife is entitled to ignore her husband. What would a man do under the same circumstances?