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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: Yes, gov'nor: all right: presently. [To Praed] Look here, Praed:
youd better go in to tea. I'll join you directly.
PRAED. Very good. [He goes into the cottage].
[The clergyman remains outside the gate, with his hands on the
top of it. The Rev. Samuel Gardner, a beneficed clergyman of the
Established Church, is over 50. Externally he is pretentious,
booming, noisy, important. Really he is that obsolescent
phenomenon the fool of the family dumped on the Church by his
father the patron, clamorously asserting himself as father and
clergyman without being able to command respect in either
capacity.]
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