Kitty: Why, yes! Of course they do, aunty—when they want to be good examples. Jem cannot understand this; and, far from taking the pledge himself, he revolts me day after day by drinking—(whispers mysteriously)—Bass's pale ale!
Lady Flo: Ah! That's bad! But, oh! my dear, if you only knew the proper way to manage a husband!
Kitty: How could I? For Jem is as unmanageable as the Great Mogul.
Lady Flo: I see you don't realize how the most violent men are those most easy to subdue. Now, there's your uncle——
Kitty: I always thought him as mild as Moses!
Lady Flo: So he is now! But there was a time——
Kitty: Oh! Do tell me all about it!
Lady Flo: Well. There was a time when your uncle imagined he might be allowed to complain if dinner were late. One day he actually dared to ask, in a voice of thunder, "Is dinner ready?"
Kitty: Jem dares that every day.
Lady Flo: It happened to be the cook's fault.