Algernon.
I would rather like to see Cecily.
Jack.
I will take very good care you never do.
She is excessively pretty, and
she is only just eighteen.
Algernon.
Have you told Gwendolen yet that you have an
excessively pretty
ward who is only just eighteen?
Jack.
Oh! one doesn’t blurt these things out to people. Cecily and
Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great friends. I’ll bet you
anything you like that half an
hour after they have met, they will be calling
each other sister.
Algernon.
Women only do that when they have called
each other a lot of
other things first. Now, my dear boy, if we want to
get a good table at
Willis’s, we really must go and dress. Do you know it is nearly seven?
Jack.
[Irritably.] Oh! It always is nearly seven.
Algernon.
Well, I’m hungry.
Jack.
I never knew you when you weren’t . . .
Algernon.
What shall we do after dinner? Go to a theatre?
Jack.
Oh no! I loathe listening.
Algernon.
Well, let us go to the Club?
Jack.
Oh, no! I hate talking.
Algernon.
Well, we might trot round to the Empire at ten?
Jack.
Oh, no! I can’t bear looking at things. It is so silly.
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