C.-C. It hasn't escaped my observation that you are a little inclined to frip. Many couples are. I think it's a pity. PORTEOUS. Would you have the very great kindness to mind your own business? LADY KITTY. It is his business. He naturally wants me to be happy. C.-C. I have the very greatest affection for Kitty. PORTEOUS. Then why the devil didn't you look after her properly? C.-C. My dear Hughie, you were my greatest friend. I trusted you. It may have been rash. PORTEOUS. It was inexcusable. LADY KITTY. I don't know what you mean by that, Hughie. PORTEOUS. Don't, don't, don't try and bully me, Kitty. LADY KITTY. Oh, I know what you mean. PORTEOUS. Then why the devil did you say you didn't? LADY KITTY. When I think that I sacrificed everything for that man! And for thirty years I've had to live in a filthy marble palace with no sanitary conveniences. C.-C. D'you mean to say you haven't got a bathroom? LADY KITTY. I've had to wash in a tub. C.-C. My poor Kitty, how you've suffered! PORTEOUS. Really, Kitty, I'm sick of hearing of the sacrifices you made. I suppose you think I sacrificed nothing. I should have been Prime Minister by now if it hadn't been for you. LADY KITTY. Nonsense! PORTEOUS. What do you mean by that? Everyone said I should be Prime Minister. Shouldn't I have been Prime Minister, Clive? C.-C. It was certainly the general expectation. PORTEOUS. I was the most promising young man of my day. I was bound to get a seat in the Cabinet at the next election. LADY KITTY. They'd have found you out just as I've found you out. I'm sick of hearing that I ruined your career. You never had a career to ruin. Prime Minister! You haven't the brain. You haven't the character. C.-C. Cheek, push, and a gift of the gab will serve very well instead, you know. LADY KITTY. Besides, in politics it's not the men that matter. It's the women at the back of them. I could have made Clive a Cabinet Minister if I'd wanted to. PORTEOUS. Clive? LADY KITTY. With my beauty, my charm, my force of character, my wit, I could have done anything. PORTEOUS. Clive was nothing but my political secretary. When I was Prime Minister I might have made him Governor of some Colony or other. Western Australia, say. Out of pure kindliness. LADY KITTY. [_With flashing eyes._] D'you think I would have buried myself in Western Australia? With my beauty? My charm? PORTEOUS. Or Barbadoes, perhaps. LADY KITTY. [_Furiously._] Barbadoes! Barbadoes can go to--Barbadoes. PORTEOUS. That's all you'd have got. LADY KITTY. Nonsense! I'd have India. PORTEOUS. I would never have given you India. LADY KITTY. You would have given me India. PORTEOUS. I tell you I wouldn't. LADY KITTY. The King would have given me India. The nation would have insisted on my having India. I would have been a vice-reine or nothing. PORTEOUS. I tell you that as long as the interests of the British Empire--Damn it all, my teeth are coming out! [_He hurries from the room._