[Good-humouredly.] We are in debt. But we share that very respectable condition with half the nobility and gentry in the kingdom. We're neither of us good managers, and we've lived a bit beyond our means this year. But in future we'll be more economical.
Jenny.
[Sullenly.] All the neighbours know that we've got bills with the tradesmen.
Basil.
[Acidly.] I'm sorry that you shouldn't have made so good a bargain as you expected when you married me.
Jenny.
I wonder what you do succeed in? Your book was very successful, wasn't it? You thought you were going to set the Thames on fire, and the book fell flat, flat, flat.
Basil.
[Recovering his good temper.] That is a fate which has befallen better books than mine.
Jenny.