[Enter
Algernon._[Raising_his_hat.]_You_are_my_little_cousin_Cecily,_I’m_sure._Cecily.'>Algernon
, very gay and debonnair.] He does!
Cecily._I_am_glad_to_hear_it._Algernon.'>Algernon.
[Raising his hat.] You are my little cousin Cecily, I’m sure.
Cecily.
You are under some strange mistake. I am not little. In fact, I
believe I am more than usually tall for my age. [
Algernon
is rather taken
aback.] But I am your cousin Cecily. You, I see from your card, are Uncle
Jack’s brother, my cousin Ernest, my wicked cousin Ernest.
Algernon.
Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn’t think
that I am wicked.
Cecily.
If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very
inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life,
pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be
hypocrisy.
Algernon.
[Looks at her in amazement.] Oh! Of course I have been rather
reckless.
Cecily.
I am glad to hear it.
Algernon.
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my
own small way.
Cecily.
I don’t think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must
have been very pleasant.
Algernon.
It is much pleasanter being here with you.
Cecily.
I can’t understand how you are here at all. Uncle Jack won’t be back
till Monday afternoon.
Algernon.
That is a great disappointment. I am obliged to go up by the first
train on Monday morning. I have a business appointment that I am anxious .
. . to miss?
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