70-77 End of Act II

Question 1

1. George: I’m ready.

The Stage Manager watches them go out, then turns to the audience, removing his spectacles

Answer 1

Well, - (he claps his hands as a signal.) Now we’re ready to get on with the wedding.

Question 2

2. Stage Manager: Like Mrs Gibbs said a few minutes ago: People were made to live two-by-two.

Answer 2

This is a good wedding, but people are so put together that even a good wedding there’s a lot of confusion way down deep in people’s minds and we thought that that ought to be in our play, too.

Question 3

3. Stage Manager: We all know that nature’s interested in quantity, but I think she’s interested in quality, too, -

Answer 3

Don’t forget all the other witnesses at this wedding - the ancestors. Millions of them. Most of them set out to live two-by-two, also. Millions of them.

Question 4

4. Mrs Soames: Don’t know when I’ve seen such a lovely wedding. But I always cry. Don’t know why it is, but I always cry. I just like to see young people happy, don’t you? Oh, I think it’s lovely.

Answer 4

I’ve seen over two hundred weddings in my day. Do I believe in it? I don’t know. M….marries N… millions of them. The cottage, the go-cart, the Sunday-afternoon drives in the Ford, the first rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the deathbed, the reading of the will,