A. Inverted proverbs and renovated paradoxes.
Q. Is this kind of dialogue entirely new?
A. Not entirely, as something rather like it has been heard at the Savoy for the last ten or twenty years.
Q. But is it good enough for a British Public?
A. Quite good enough. They will laugh when a London lady expresses surprise at finding flowers growing in the country, and roar when they hear the retort, that plants are as common in the provinces as people in town.
Q. But surely this vein of sarcasm, satire, or whatever it is, will some day be worked out. What can the dramatist then do?
A. Act upon precedent, and try something else.
