Mr. Jarvis (interested)—I’ve never seen that done before.
Miss Paysley (tranquilly)—You have your fortune told early and often?
Mr. Jarvis (undisturbed)—As often as possible!
Miss Paysley (aside)—Of course you never lose a chance of talking about yourself! (Aloud.) You’ve a very unusual hand. You’re two or three people, one at the top of the other.
Mr. Jarvis (plaintively)—One would think I were a ham sandwich.
Miss Paysley (calmly)—A layer cake, I should put it.
Mr. Jarvis (aside)—You can’t feaze her. She’s really prettier than Mrs. Orton. (Aloud.) What are my many characters? It’s interesting. (Aside.) Now for the “You know the higher but follow the lower.”
Miss Paysley—Fundamentally, beside your love of strength, you are simple, kindly, unaffected. You would be happy married to a girl kindly and unaffected like yourself. (Aside.) I mustn’t give too pointed a description of Millicent.
Mr. Jarvis—The country—— Milking time? Love in a cottage? Baby’s first step?
Miss Paysley—Laugh, if you like, but that’s really what you like, and what would make you happy! That’s the sort of atmosphere you do your best work in. You need for a wife some one not too self-assertive, and who believes in you. You need a certain sort of appreciation to work well—and wanting appreciation, you put up with flattery.