Mrs. Dot: A Farce

by W. Somerset Maugham

You will do what you can, won’t you?

Nellie.

I’ll make it quite plain to him at once that he mustn’t care for me.

Mrs. Dot.

Treat it as an impertinence that you resent.

Nellie.

I’ll do that on the first opportunity.

Mrs. Dot.

I know you have the sweetest nature in the world, but if you could be really brutal to him at once, it would cure him instantly.

Nellie.