GEOFFREY [He turns on her.] Why not you--if there must be a
fight? Or would it be against your principles?

ELIZABETH Not in the least.

GEOFFREY Ah!

ELIZABETH I would offer myself as a substitute. Only it might
seem like coming between husband and wife.

GEOFFREY [He turns away with a grunt of disgust.]

PHOEBE It's awfully rough on you, Geoffrey. I can see it from
your point of view. But one can't help remembering the things that
you yourself have said.

GEOFFREY I know; I know. I've been going up and down the country,
excusing even your excesses on the ground that no movement can
force its way to the front without treading on innumerable toes.
For me, now, to cry halt merely because it happens to be my own
toes that are in the way would be--ridiculous--absurd--would be
monstrous. [Nobody contradicts him.] You are perfectly justified-
-if this case means what you say it does--in putting up a candidate
against me for East Poplar. Only, naturally, it cannot be Annys.
[He reaches out his hand to where ANNYS stands a little behind him,
takes her hand.] Annys and I have fought more than one election.
It has been side by side.

ELIZABETH The lady a little behind.