Valentine monologue (Act 3) — You Never Can Tell

Of course not. Now what happens in the duel of sex? The old fashioned mother received an old fashioned education to protect her against the wiles of man. Well, you know the result: the old fashioned man got round her. The old fashioned woman resolved to protect her daughter more effectually--to find some armor too strong for the old fashioned man. So she gave her daughter a scientific education--your plan. That was a corker for the old fashioned man: he said it wasn't fair--unwomanly and all the rest of it. But that didn't do him any good. So he had to give up his old fashioned plan of attack--you know--going down on his knees and swearing to love, honor and obey, and so on.