ACT 2 SCENE 6 Flashcards
MERRIMAN: Yes, sir. Three portmanteaus, a dressing-case, two hat-boxes, and a large luncheon-basket.
I am afraid I can’t stay for more that a week this time.
JACK: Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest has been suddenly called back to town.
MERRIMAN: Yes, sir.
What a fearful liar you are, Jack. I have not been called back to town at all.
JACK: Your duty as a gentleman calls you back.
My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
JACK: I can quite understand that.
Well, Cecily is a darling.
JACK: You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that. I don’t like it.
Well, I don’t like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don’t you go up and change? It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying for a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
JACK: You are certainly not staying with me for a whole week as a guest or anything else. You have got to leave . . . by the four-five train.
I certainly won’t leave you so long as you are in mourning. If I were in mourning you would stay with me, I suppose. I should think it very unkind if you didn’t.
JACK: Well, will you go if I change my clothes?
Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
JACK: Well, at any rate, that is better than being always over-dressed as you are.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
