Vicar.

How did you win them?

John.

Oh, I don’t know. Playing about generally.

Mrs. Wharton.

I don’t think you’ll get very much more than that out of John.

Vicar.

[To John.] You lucky beggar! You’ve had your chance and you were able to take it. That’s where I should have been, where my heart was, with the brave lads at the front. And my confounded chest has kept me chained to this little tin-pot parish.

Mrs. Poole.

My husband suffers from his lungs.