A. An assembly accustomed to accept everything as wit, and to laugh at anything.
Q. Would such a gathering consider it amusing for someone to say "Flirting with one's husband is quite indelicate: it is like washing one's clean linen in public"?
A. Certainly; and would find much to admire in a dialogue given over for something like ten minutes to an exhaustive consideration of muffins.
Q. And what do you mean by a personality?
A. More or less—an insouciant manner, and a rather startling button-hole.
Q. Does the personality require a speech or a cigarette?
A. Neither now, as both have ceased to be the fashion.
Q. Given the requisites you have specified for creating a dramatist, what is the product?
A. A trivial comedy for serious people.
Q. Why give a play such a title?