I want her to meet you first. A snug little dinner before the wedding. She's heard so much against the English I want her to see the best specimen they've got. (Dartrey laughs heartily) I tell you if you pass muster with her you have the passport to Kingdom come. (Laughing as well as he grips Dartrey's hand) Good-by. DARTREY (As they walk to the door) When will it be? GILRUTH Next Tuesday. I'll ring you up and give you the full particulars. DARTREY In church? GILRUTH Church! Cathedral! His Eminence will officiate. DARTREY Topping. GILRUTH Well, you see, we Irish only marry once. So we make an occasion of it. DARTREY Splendid. I'll look forward to it. GILRUTH (Looking at the bandage) Is your head getting all right? DARTREY Oh, dear, yes. It's quite healed up. I'll have this thing off in a day or two. (Touching the bandage) I expect to be back in a few weeks. GILRUTH (Anxiously) Again? DARTREY Yes. GILRUTH If ever a man had done his share, you have. DARTREY They need me. They need us all. GILRUTH The third time. DARTREY There are many who have done the same. GILRUTH (Shudders) How long will it last? DARTREY Until the Hun is beaten. GILRUTH Years, eh? DARTREY It looks like it. We've hardly begun yet. It will take a year to really get the ball rolling. Then things will happen. Tell me. How do they feel in America? Frankly. GILRUTH All the people who matter are pro-Ally. DARTREY Are you sure? GILRUTH I'm positive. DARTREY Are you? Come, now. GILRUTH Why, of course I am. DARTREY They may be pro-Ally, but they're not pro-English. GILRUTH That's true. Many of them are not. But if ever the test comes, they will be. DARTREY (Shakes his head doubtfully) I wonder. It seems a pity not to bury all the Bunker-Hill and Boston-tea-chest prejudices. GILRUTH You're right there. DARTREY Why your boys and girls are taught in their school-books to hate us. GILRUTH In places they are. Now that I know the English a little I have been agitating to revisit them. It all seems so damned cheap and petty for a big country to belittle a great nation through the mouth of children. DARTREY There's no hatred like family hatred. After all we're cousins, speaking the same tongue and with pretty much the same outlook. GILRUTH There's one race in America that holds back as strongly as it can any better understanding between the two countries, and that's my race--the Irish. And well I know it. I was brought up on it. There are men to-day, men of position too, in our big cities who have openly said they want to see England crushed in this war. DARTREY So I've heard. It would be a sorry day for the rest of civilization, and particularly America, if we were. GILRUTH You can't convince them of that. They carry on the prejudices and hatred of generations. I have accused some of them of being actively pro-German; of tinkering with German money to foster revolution in Ireland.