If only I could believe I was necessary to you! Ah, my dear! We're all the same; we're all as hollow as that tree! When it's ourselves it's always a special case! Positive cool voice of a young man who knows that he knows everything. He is perfectly calm. They must go their own ways, poor things! She can't put herself in the child's place, and the child can't put herself in Molly's. A woman and a girl--there's the tree of life between them! Ashamed? Am I to live all my life like a dead woman because you're ashamed? Am I to live like the dead because you 're a child that knows nothing of life? Listen, Joy, you 'd better understand this once for all. Your Father has no right over me and he knows it. We 've been hateful to each other for years. Can you understand that? Don't cover your face like a child--look at me. STRIFE /gutenberg/etext01/strif10.txt PASSAGES FROM THE TEXT: ENID. [In a changed voice, stroking his sleeve.] Father, you know you oughtn't to have this strain on you--you know what Dr. Fisher said! ANTHONY. No old man can afford to listen to old women. I am not aware that if my adversary suffer in a fair fight not sought by me, it is my fault. If I fall under his feet--as fall I may--I shall not complain. That will be my look-out--and this is--his. I cannot separate, as I would, these men from their women and children. A fair fight is a fair fight! Let them learn to think before they pick a quarrel! These are the words of my own son. They are the words of a generation that I don't understand; the words of a soft breed. It seems the fashion nowadays for men to take their enemy's side. I have not learnt that art. PLAYS: SECOND SERIES: THE ELDEST SON /gutenberg/etext01/eldsn10.txt PASSAGES FROM THE TEXT: ....whose choleric autocracy is veiled by a thin urbanity. But I don't see the use in drawin' hard and fast rules. You only have to break 'em. Yes, I know. Women always get the worst of these things. That's natural. Because I'm a rotter in one way, I'm not necessarily a rotter in all. THE LITTLE DREAM /gutenberg/etext01/ldrem10.txt PASSAGES FROM THE TEXT: "You have all the world; and I have nothing."--"Except Felsman, and the mountains."--"It is not good to eat only bread." The life of men in crowds is mine--of lamplight in the streets at dawn. [Softly] I have a thousand loves, and never one too long. There is religion so deep that no man knows what it means. There is religion so shallow, you may have it by turning a handle. We have everything. JUSTICE /gutenberg/etext01/justc10.txt PASSAGES FROM THE TEXT: According to you, no one would ever prosecute. "I shouldn't be surprised if he was tempted."--"Life's one long temptation...."