[Handing her the box and giving her a light.] It's against all my principles, you know.
Mrs. Crowley.
What is the use of principles except to give one an agreeable sensation of wickedness when one doesn't act up to them?
[Dick comes in as she speaks.
Dick.
My dear lady, you're as epigrammatic as a dramatist. Do you say such things from choice or necessity?
Lady Kelsey.
Dick!
Boulger.
Dick!