If you find one
getting a hold on you, make a merit of it, he says. Your Uncle Phil
doesnt like spirits; and he makes a merit of it, and is chairman of
the Blue Ribbon Committee. I do like spirits; and I make a merit of
it, and I'm the King Cockatoo of the Convivial Cockatoos. Never put
yourself in the wrong, he says. I used to boast about what a good boy
Bobby was. Now I swank about what a dog he is; and it pleases people
just as well. What a world it is!
KNOX. It turned my blood cold at first to hear Margaret telling
people about Holloway; but it goes down better than her singing used
to.
MRS KNOX. I never thought she sang right after all those lessons we
paid for.
GILBEY. Lord, Knox, it was lucky you and me got let in together. I
tell you straight, if it hadnt been for Bobby's disgrace, I'd have
broke up the firm.
KNOX. I shouldnt have blamed you: I'd have done the same only for
Margaret. Too much straightlacedness narrows a man's mind. Talking
of that, what about those hygienic corset advertisements that Vines &
Jackson want us to put in the window? I told Vines they werent decent
and we couldnt shew them in our shop. I was pretty high with him.
But what am I to say to him now if he comes and throws this business
in our teeth?
GILBEY. Oh, put em in. We may as well go it a bit now.
MRS GILBEY. Youve been going it quite far enough, Rob. [To Mrs
Knox] He wont get up in the mornings now: he that was always out of
bed at seven to the tick!
MRS KNOX.
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