Dick.
I'm going to retire.
Lady Kelsey.
From the bar as well?
Dick.
From the bar as well. Henceforth I shall cultivate only such arts and graces as are proper to the man of leisure. My fellow men are a great deal too strenuous, and I propose to offer them the spectacle of a complete idler who demands from the world neither honours nor profit, but only entertainment.
Mrs. Crowley.
D'you mean to say you're going to give up a large practice and a position which may be very important merely to gratify a foolish whim?
Dick.
I haven't time to work. Life is so much too short. A little while ago it occurred to me that I was nearly forty. [To Mrs. Crowley.] D'you know the feeling?