ACT 2 SCENE 9

Question 1

CECILY: This is Uncle Jack.

GWENDOLEN: [Receding.] Jack! Oh!

Answer 1

[Enter me (he says in parentheses)]

Question 2

CECILY: Here is Ernest.

Answer 2

[Goes straight over to Cecily without noticing any one else.]

My own love!

[Offers to kiss her.]

Question 3

CECILY: A moment, Ernest! May I ask you—are you engaged to be married to this young lady?

Answer 3

To what young lady? Good heavens! Gwendolen!

Question 4

CECILY: Thank you. [Presenting her cheek to be kissed.] You may.

Answer 4

[Kiss cheek]

Question 5

CECILY.
[Breaking away from Algernon.] Algernon Moncrieff! Oh!

[The two girls move towards each other and put their arms round each other’s waists as if for protection.]

Are you called Algernon?

Answer 5

I cannot deny it.

Question 6

CECILY: Yes! to good heavens, Gwendolen, I mean to Gwendolen.

Answer 6

Of course not! What could have put such an idea into your pretty little head?