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PARAMORE has been trying to emulate GLORIA, and as the commotion reaches its height he begins to spin round and round, more and more dizzily he staggers, recovers, staggers again and then falls in the direction of the hall ... almost into the arms of old ADAM PATCH, whose approach has been rendered inaudible by the pandemonium in the room. ADAM PATCH is very white. He leans upon a stick.
A big hired touring-car from New York drove up to the door and out they stepped, drunk as lords, of course. PARAMORE: No, I'm in the Laird Street Settlement in Stamford. Italians and other immigrants. Catholics mostly, you know, so it's very hard to reach them. PARAMORE: Not so much crime as ignorance and dirt. MAURY: That's my theory: immediate electrocution of all ignorant and dirty people.
Gone since ha' past six. TANA: Yes. Company. Mistah Caramel, Mistah and Missays Barnes, Miss Kane, all stay here. PARAMORE: I see. TANA: I no un'stan'. PARAMORE: They've been having a fling. TANA: Yes, they have drink. Oh, many, many, many drink. PARAMORE: One of the Japanese instruments. TANA: I play flu-u-ute, Japanese flu-u-ute. PARAMORE: What song were you playing?
MURIEL: A man who comes from a good family and went to Yale or Harvard or Princeton, and has money and dances well, and all that. MAURY: At last the perfect definition! Cardinal Newman's is now a back number. PARAMORE: I think we ought to look on the question more broad-mindedly. Was it Abraham Lincoln who said that a gentleman is one who never inflicts pain?
But when he arrived there, instead of comfort, they showed him the face of the door alone; for the news of his loss was before him, and Master Paramore was a sound, prudent man, and a high member of the town council. It is said that they even gave him notice to pay for Betsy's wedding-clothes, now that he was too poor to marry her.
The point is worth a pause, because it is a good, short way of stating Shaw's attitude, right or wrong, upon the whole of formal morality. What he dislikes in young Doctor Paramore is that he has interposed a secondary and false conscience between himself and the facts.
PARAMORE: There's some good in all religions. MURIEL: I'm a Catholic but, as I always say, I'm not working at it. MAURY: Well, such a broad-minded man should consider the raised plane of sensation and the stimulated optimism contained in this cocktail. MAURY: One? Outrageous! Here we have a class of 'nineteen ten reunion, and you refuse to be even a little pickled. Come on!
Haven't seen you for years. The name, if he ever knew it, he has long since forgotten. PARAMORE: You've forgotten Fred Paramore? We were both in old Unc Robert's history class. MAURY: No, I haven't, Unc I mean Fred. Fred was I mean Unc was a great old fellow, wasn't he? Great old character. Where's Anthony? PARAMORE: The Japanese servant told me he was at some inn. Having dinner, I suppose.
MAURY: It's attributed, I believe, to General Ludendorff. PARAMORE: Surely you're joking. MAURY: Have another drink. PARAMORE: I oughtn't to. MURIEL: Oh, let's take up the rugs and dance! MURIEL: Come on, you lazy-bones. Get up and move the furniture back. DICK: Wait till I finish my drink. Let's each fill one glass, drink it off and then we'll dance. MURIEL: My head is simply going round now.
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