33-37 Flashcards
We will repeat yesterday’s lesson
But I don’t like German. It isn’t at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson.
Indeed, he always lays stress on your German grammar when he is leaving for town.
Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious! Sometimes he is so serious that I think he cannot be quite well.
I know no one who has a higher sense of duty and responsibility.
I suppose that is why he often looks a little bored when we three are together.
You must remember his constant anxiety about that unfortunate young man his brother
I wish uncle Jack would allow that unfortunate young man his brother to come down here sometimes. We might have a good influence over him, Ms. Prism. I am sure you certainly would. You know German and geology and things of that kind influence a man very much.
I really don’t see why you should keep a diary at all
I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should probably forget all about them.
Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Yes, but it usually chronicles the things that have never happened, and couldn’t possibly have happened. I believe that memory is responsible for nearly all the 3 volume novels that Mudie sends us.
I wrote one myself in earlier days.
Did you really, Ms. Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don’t like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
That is what fiction means.
I suppose so. But it seems very unfair. And was your novel ever published?
To your work, child, these speculations are profitless.
But I see dear Dr. Chasuble coming up through the garden.
Ms. Prism, you arez I trust, well?
Ms. Prism has just been complaining of a slight headache. I think it would do her so much good to have a short stroll with you in the park, Dr. Chasuble.
Cecily, I haven’t mentioned anything about a headache.
No, dear Ms. Prism, I know that, but I felt instinctively that you had a headache. Indeed I was thinking about that, and not about my German lesson, when the rector came in.
I hope, Cecily, you are not inattentive.
Oh I am afraid I am.
Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side.
Horrid Political Economy, horrid Geography! horrid, horrid German!
He has brought his luggage with his.
Mr. Ernest Worthing, B4, the Albany, W. Uncle Jack’s brother! Did you tell him Mr. Worthing was in town?
He said he was anxious to speak to you privately for a moment.
Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing to come here. I suppose you had better talk to the housekeeper about a room for him.
