Jack London

“ If you must indulge in a vulgar liaison why couldn't you select a man in your own set?
EDNA: And what then?
MASTERSON: Marriage, decency.
EDNA: I fail to see why a "vulgar liaison" ending in a marriage with another neurasthenic, like myself, necessarily means decency. I would then be, not only the envied daughter of John Masterson, but the envied wife also of Mr. Something or Other, therefore respectable, because our unholy matrimony. ”

“ I used to beg nurse to drive me that way every day, and I made up my mind then, in my childish way, that some day I would have a little cottage like that. I used to lie on a big rug on the nursery floor, in front of the fire, such a lonely little thing--you do not know how lonely the baby of a rich man can be----but I do----I do! ”

“ Horses, houses, land, stocks, bonds, titles, flesh and blood, your own flesh and blood. You are so busy buying and selling that you forget your women are human beings, They are instead things to hang jewels on to reflect your great success. ”

“ This will cost you your job--do you know whose house you are in? I am John Masterson. (Crosses, D.R.) Good God! What's the world coming to? When a man can be insulted in his own house like this.
OFFICER: (His manner changing) : No insult meant, Sir. Of course it was a mistake. I did not know it was your house, Mr. Masterson. I am sorr--
BURT: Haven't we inconvenienced this lady and gentleman long enough, officer?
MASTERSON: Yes,----you'll hear more of this----dragging strange men from some brothel into the homes of respectable people. ”

“ Nurse and I used often to drive by a row of clean shing little cottages out in the suburbs with flowers in front and children playing all about. Sometimes I saw a man getting off the car, just the common street car at the corner. ”

“ OFFICER: Well, after the hearing tomorrow morning nothing can bother the young lady unless it happens to get into the newspapers. I hate to think, though, that she gave me the slip. It's my duty to produce her in the police court tomorrow morning, if possible. ”