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LORD ILLINGWORTH: She is excessively good-looking. (Looks at MRS. ARBUTHNOT. ) girl HUNSTANTON: Caroline, lets all make a stream to the music-room? pass over Worsley goes to play. You’ll come too, pricey Mrs. Arbuthnot, won’t you? You don’t recognize what a deal with is in shop for you. (To physician DAUBENY): i need to rather take omit Worsley down a few afternoon to the rectory. I should still a lot like expensive Mrs. Daubeny to listen to her at the violin. Ah, I forgot. pricey Mrs. Daubeny’s listening to is a bit faulty, is it now not? THE ARCHDEACON: Her deafness is a smart privation to her. She can’t even pay attention my sermons now. She reads them at domestic. yet she has many assets in herself, many assets. woman HUNSTANTON: She reads a lot, i assume? THE ARCHDEACON: simply the very biggest print. The eyesight is speedily going. yet she’s by no means morbid, by no means morbid. GERALD (to LORD ILLINGWORTH): Do converse to my mom, Lord Illingworth, prior to you move into the music-room. She turns out to imagine, by some means, you don’t suggest what you acknowledged to me. MRS. ALLONBY: Aren’t you coming? LORD ILLINGWORTH: In a number of moments. woman Hunstanton, if Mrs. Arbuthnot might permit me, i want to assert a number of phrases to her, and we'll subscribe to you in a while. girl HUNSTANTON: Ah, in fact. you have got greatly to claim to her, and she or he could have greatly to thanks for. it's not each son who will get such a proposal, Mrs. Arbuthnot. yet i do know you delight in that, expensive. girl CAROLINE: John! woman HUNSTANTON: Now, don’t hold Mrs. Arbuthnot too lengthy, Lord Illingworth. We can’t spare her. go out following the opposite visitors. Sound of violin heard from music-room. LORD ILLINGWORTH: in order that is our son, Rachel! good, i'm very happy with him. he's a Harford, each inch of him. incidentally, why Arbuthnot, Rachel? MRS. ARBUTHNOT: One identify is nearly as good as one other, while one has no correct to any identify. LORD ILLINGWORTH: i guess so – yet why Gerald? MRS. ARBUTHNOT: After a guy whose middle I broke – after my father. LORD ILLINGWORTH: good, Rachel, what's over is over. All i've got received to assert now could be that i'm very, a great deal proud of our boy. the area will be aware of him simply as my deepest secretary, yet to me he'll be anything very close to, and extremely expensive. it's a curious factor, Rachel; my lifestyles looked to be rather whole. It was once now not so. It lacked whatever, it lacked a son. i've got came upon my son now. i'm completely happy i've got came across him. MRS. ARBUTHNOT: you haven't any correct to say him, or the smallest a part of him. The boy is solely mine, and shall stay mine. LORD ILLINGWORTH: My pricey Rachel, you've gotten had him to your self for over 20 years. Why now not enable me have him for a bit now? he's particularly as a lot mine as yours. MRS. ARBUTHNOT: Are you conversing of the kid you deserted? Of the kid who, so far as you are worried, may have died of starvation and of wish? LORD ILLINGWORTH: You omit, Rachel, it was once you who left me. It was once no longer I who left you. MRS. ARBUTHNOT: I left you since you refused to offer the kid a reputation. prior to my son was once born, I implored you to marry me. LORD ILLINGWORTH: I had no expectancies then.