Quite so. It's the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.

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- Mr. Gray has something terribly important to tell you, Harry. We're all dying to learn what it is.

- I imagine it can wait until luncheon is over.

- I'm vexed with you, Harry. Why do you try to persuade Mr. Gray to give up the East End?

- He's a wonderful musician, and they love his playing.

- The East End is a very important problem.

- Quite so. It's the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves.

- I suspect we're interested in the poor in order to amuse ourselves. Especially as we grow older and are unfit for other amusements.

- I wish you would tell me how to become young again.

- Can you remember any great errors that you committed in your early days?

- A great many, I fear.

- Then commit them over again. To regain one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

- A delightful theory.

- A dangerous theory.

- One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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