CRAIG’S WIFE
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Mrs. Craig
- Now, listen to me, Walter Craig, you’re surely not serious about leaving this house.
Craig
- Why, I should think that decision would please you very much.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, it doesn’t please me at all; it’s absolutely ridiculous.
Craig
- But it’s so absolutely practical.
Mrs. Craig
- Oh, don’t try to be funny.
Craig
- And you’ve been deploring my lack of practicality so long.
Mrs. Craig
- I’d like to know what’s practical about a man walking out and leaving his wife and his home.
Craig
- I have no wife to leave,—for you neither loved nor honored me.
Mrs. Craig
- Well, you married me, whether I did or not.
Craig
- I never saw you before in my life, Harriet—until last night.
Mrs. Craig
- You married me, didn’t you?
Craig
- And you married a house; and if it’s agreeable to you, I’ll see that you have it; and that you can go on having it, just as though I were here.
