Every girl likes a suspicion of romance thrown over her love-affairs.

Gerald.

Your mother will tell you that the certainty of marriage is much more satisfactory.

Nellie.

[Dryly.] You would have made an excellent husband—for mother.

Gerald.

Have you noticed that when we do think of something to talk about, we get perilously near a squabble?

Nellie.

I sometimes think it would be better to quarrel outright now and then than be always so desperately polite to one another.

Gerald.