Part 2 (2/2)

COLONEL.

I don't despair! Do you suppose this folly can continue? Do you imagine that these puffed-up women will not soon burst of their own vanity? Then, the reaction! then will come _our_ turn! Mark my words, Sylvester, there'll be a boom in men!

[_Rubbing his hands._

_Enter GERALD, door in flat._

GERALD.

Good afternoon. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.

[_Shakes hands with COLONEL._

COLONEL.

Here you are, at last.

GERALD [_shaking hands with SYLVESTER_].

How's Mrs. Sylvester?

SYLVESTER.

I was just going to ask you. You see more of her than I do.

GERALD.

We are collaborating.

COLONEL.

In the Higher Morality?

SYLVESTER.

How are you getting on?

GERALD.

Oh, we are only on the threshold. I finished the first chapter about daybreak.

COLONEL.

That's how you waste the precious hours of night? Gad, sir, when I was your age----

GERALD.

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