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NANCY. Jim! Have you earned all this?

BROXOPP (disparagingly). Tut! That’s nothing to what is coming.

NANCY. Fifteen pounds! (Suddenly remembering) Now what would you really like for dinner?

BROXOPP (going over to her and taking her hands). Nancy, you believed in me all the time. It has been weary waiting for you, but now—(answering her question) I think I should like a kiss.

NANCY (kissing him and staying very close). Of course I believed in you, my wonderful man. And now they’ll all believe in you. (After a pause) Who believed the fifteen pounds? Was it Mr.Spenlow?

BROXOPP. Spenlow? Bah! (He strides across the room and tears down the Spenlow advertisements.) Spenlow comes down—like his suspenders. Facilis descensus Spenlovi. (Dramatically) I see the man Spenlow begging his bread from door to door. I see his wife’s stockings falling in swathes about her ankles. I see——

NANCY. Darling!

BROXOPP. You’re quite right, dear. I’m being vulgar again. And worse than that—uncharitable. ssss1When we are rich, we will ask the Spenlows to stay with us. We will be kind to them; we will provide them with suspenders.