What culture a university can give,
wepossess.
They should be concubines, not husbands
andwives.
Dicks weaknesseswere as obvious to me then as they
are now. Money guarantees comfort and what you call culture.
ACT IVTHE ENDWhen the temple reappears the censer
is on the altar.
Still, there are certain precautions one can take.
Sir Ferdinand has toldus that our incomes will stop when our father dies. All the
rest laugh, except Mrs Secondborn, who snorts.
But he insisted on ourleaving without a
degree.
Theship can be demagnetized: who can demagnetize
me?
I have what is left of the thousand pounds my
fatherstarted me with. Do you suppose thatthere is no mathematical hormone? We can
know it only relatively at any moment.
Come as often as you please: you are one of the
family now. The Panama native, attired as a British valet, enters hastily andcomes
straight to Her.
She was not abit surprised, though she was quite
unprepared.
You have made your billions by taking risks. He has
seen you again at the singing theatre here inLondon. The Priestand the Native are
rearranging the chairs.
Oh, she is not dead: I let her divorce me. No:
because I provide a comfortable home for you,where you can see whom you like when
you like. The sex illusion is not afixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a
constant.
You were born to talk and saynothing, to write and
do nothing. Second marriages are the quietest and happiest.
It variesfrom zero in my wifes case to madness in
that of our stepsister.
Have you nothing else to say for yourself? She is
glad to have one more to housekeep for.
When they are all ruinedthey will expect me to keep
them on my annuity. Money guarantees comfort and what you call culture. I find it
hard to believe that he will ever die. Clemmy and the man from Panama aregoing to
marry. You may regret it; but you will regret it worseif you are afraid to try your
luck.
But surely the truth is always the proper
thing.
All I can do is to marry her for her money ifI can
persuade her to marry me. It will just end in their getting married like other
people. Mr Buoyant hasadded to his instruction this sentence.