Archibald.

I’m quite prepared to live on a hundred and seventy a year, mother. I dare say it would have just as good an effect on my figure as matrimony.

Mrs. Insoley.

[Rather crossly.] I don’t know what you’re talking about, Archibald.

Archibald.

I understood you to recommend marriage as a sort of heroic remedy for corpulence.

Mrs. Insoley.

You have nothing against Helen, I presume?

Archibald.

[Smiling.] I could have wished that fewer summers had passed over a fringe which I shrewdly suspect to be artificial.