"We don't need it.

That's out.

Merton Gill is a lot better name." She had used "we" quite as if it were a community name.
"Well, if you think so--" he began regretfully, for Clifford Armytage still seemed superior to the indistinction of Merton Gill.
"Sure, it's a lot better," she went on.

"That 'Clifford Armytage'-- say, it reminds me of just another such feckless dub as you that acted with us one time when we all trouped in a rep show, playing East Lynne and such things.

He was just as wise as you are, and when he joined out at Kansas City they gave him a whole book of the piece instead of just his sides.