DOROTHEA. But I've important things----

DOROTHY. I know--

That's why I came. This telegram, you mean----

DOROTHEA. Mind your own business!

DOROTHY. But it _is_ mine, quite

As much as yours. You'll take him? You insist?

_I_ won't!

DOROTHEA. How terrible! In this modern light

Poor James looks almost like a bigamist....

DOROTHY. Marry that hippopotamus if you dare!

DOROTHEA. Chairmen of Boards must be a little fat.

DOROTHY. James never rises but he 'takes' the chair.

DOROTHEA. He owns five cars, four houses, and a flat.

DOROTHY. Those and the seven deadly virtues, too.

DOROTHEA. He's forty-nine and never loved before.

DOROTHY. Why not? No girl would think of him but you.

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