LADY CORINTHIA. Oh, I know what you officers are. To you a woman's honor
is nothing, and the idle pleasure of the moment is everything.
MITCHENER. This is perfectly ridiculous. I never ruined anyone in my
life.
LADY CORINTHIA. Never! Are you in earnest?
MITCHENER. Certainly I am in earnest. Most indignantly in earnest.
LADY CORINTHIA (throwing down the pistol contemptuously). Then you have
no temperament; you are not an artist. You have no soul for music.
MITCHENER. Ive subscribed to the regimental band all my life. I bought
two sarrusophones for it out of my own pocket. When I sang Tosti's
Goodbye for Ever at Knightsbridge in 1880, the whole regiment wept. You
are too young to remember that.