Paul Ruttledge. I am never going back to them. I am going to live among these people. I will marry among them.
Jerome. That is nonsense; you will soon change your mind.
Paul Ruttledge. Oh! no, I won't; I am taking my vows as you made yours when you entered religion. I have chosen my wife; I am going to marry before evening.
Jerome. Thank God, you will have to stop short of that, the Church will never marry you.
Paul Ruttledge. Oh! I am not going to ask the help of the Church. But I am to be married by what may be as old a ceremony as yours. What is it I am to do, Charlie?
Charlie Ward. To lep a budget, sir.
Paul Ruttledge. Yes, that is it, the budget is there by the wall.
Jerome. I command you, in the name of the Holy Church and of the teaching you have received from the Church, to leave this folly, this degradation, this sin!
Paul Ruttledge. You forget, Jerome, that I am on the track of the wild beast, and hunters in all ages have been a bad people to preach to. When I have tamed the beast, perhaps I will bring him to your religious house to be baptized.
Jerome. I will not listen to this profanity. [To Charlie Ward.] It is you who have put this madness on him as you have stolen his clothes!