Part 26 (2/2)

MARGERY.

I'll go and wake him up.

[_Exit, R._

VICTORIA.

Humph! [_Sits._] Well, how long do you give it?

SYLVESTER.

Do you mean philosophy?

VICTORIA.

The Cazenove _menage._ Another six months? These love-matches are honeymoon affairs. When once that's over, there's an end of everything.

SYLVESTER.

But is it over?

VICTORIA.

Everybody's talking. Cazenove is bored to death.

SYLVESTER.

I don't think his wife is.

VICTORIA.

Ah, that will come in time; and when it does, I mean to take Margery in hand. She is neglected shamefully. _She_ hasn't discovered it yet, but all her friends have.

SYLVESTER.

They're generally first in the field.

VICTORIA.

If a husband ignores his wife, the wife is ent.i.tled to ignore her husband. What would a man do under the same circ.u.mstances?

SYLVESTER.

Is not the question rather, what a man _ought_ to do?

VICTORIA.

That is Utopian. We must take the world as we find it.

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