I never mean to
have children"?
[SIGSBY enters in company with BEN LAMB, M.P. LAMB is a short,
thick-set, good-tempered man.]
Ah, Lamb, how are you?
LAMB [They greet one another.] How are things going?
SIGSBY They're not going at all well.
GEOFFREY Sigsby was ever the child of despondency.
SIGSBY Yes, and so will you be when you find yourself at the
bottom of the poll.
GEOFFREY [The notion takes him by surprise.]
LAMB It's going to be a closer affair than any of us thought.
It's the joke of the thing that appears to have got hold of them.
They want to see what will happen.
GEOFFREY Man's fatal curiosity concerning the eternal feminine!
SIGSBY Yes, and they won't have to pay for it. That will be our
department.
ST. HERBERT [To SIGSBY.] What do you think they'll do, supposing
by any chance Mrs. Chilvers should head the poll?
SIGSBY How do you mean--"what'll they do?"
ST. HERBERT Do you think they'll claim the seat?
SIGSBY Claim the seat! What do you think they're out for--their
health? Get another six months' advertisement, if they don't get
anything else.
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