You are very
charming people, most advanced, unprejudiced, frank, humane,
unconventional, democratic, free-thinking, and everything that is
delightful to thoughtful people.
MRS HUSHABYE. You do us proud, Mazzini.
MAZZINI. I am not flattering, really. Where else could I feel
perfectly at ease in my pyjamas? I sometimes dream that I am in
very distinguished society, and suddenly I have nothing on but my
pyjamas! Sometimes I haven't even pyjamas. And I always feel
overwhelmed with confusion. But here, I don't mind in the least:
it seems quite natural.
LADY UTTERWORD. An infallible sign that you are now not in really
distinguished society, Mr Dunn. If you were in my house, you
would feel embarrassed.
MAZZINI. I shall take particular care to keep out of your house,
Lady Utterword.
LADY UTTERWORD. You will be quite wrong, Mr Dunn. I should make
you very comfortable; and you would not have the trouble and
anxiety of wondering whether you should wear your purple and gold
or your green and crimson dressing-gown at dinner. You complicate
life instead of simplifying it by doing these ridiculous things.
ELLIE. Your house is not Heartbreak House: is it, Lady Utterword?
HECTOR. Yet she breaks hearts, easy as her house is. That poor
devil upstairs with his flute howls when she twists his heart,
just as Mangan howls when my wife twists his.
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