human
No man or woman has a right to dictate to another what he shall do, provided the thing contemplated is not an offense against another. You have no right to set your will against your son's when it is a matter of his life's happiness.
gpt
But that's why I do oppose him. I want him to be happy--heaven knows I do! He can't be happy--this way.
human
How do you know that? You don't know it. You are just as likely to make him bitterly unhappy by opposing him as by letting him alone. And I can tell you one thing surely, Mrs. King: Jordan will do as he wishes in spite of you, and all you will gain by opposition will be not a gain, but a sacrifice--of his love.
gpt
How can you think he will be so selfish?
human
Selfish--to marry the woman he wants instead of the woman you want? That's an old, old argument of selfish mothers.
gpt
Doctor Burns! How can you speak so, when all I ask for is my son's best good?
human
You think you do, dear lady. What you really want is--your own way.