LWF quotes

Question 1

Dumby - quite

Answer 1

“Quite delightful…dreadfully dull!”

Question 2

DOB - dear

Answer 2

“dear girl! so devoted to sunsets!”

Question 3

Agatha

Answer 3

“yes mamma”

Question 3

DOB - that

Answer 3

“That rich young Australian people are taking such notice of just at present”

Question 4

Mrs E - motherly feelings

Answer 4

“terrible - made me suffer”

Question 5

Mrs E - I feel

Answer 5

“I feel a passion awakening within me that i never felt before…how can i save her? How can i save my child?”

Question 6

Mrs E - if

Answer 6

“if he had a thousand loves, you must stay with your child”

Question 7

DOB - I wont

Answer 7

“I won’t let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked”

Question 8

Mrs E - the truth

Answer 8

“It will ruin her, and make her wretched”

Question 9

Lord W - calls Lady W

Answer 9

“child”

Question 10

DOB - women are

Answer 10

“domestic creatures”

Question 11

DOB - it was

Answer 11

“it was only Berwick’s brutal and incessant threats of suicide that made me accept him at all”

Question 12

LD - you

Answer 12

“you are” “you are” “you would” “you have no courage, none!”

Question 13

Lady W - men

Answer 13

“I have heard that men are brutal, horrible”

Question 14

Lord W - right

Answer 14

“you cut open my bank book. you have no right to do such a thing!”

Question 15

What is Lady W doing at the start?

Answer 15

arranging roses

Question 16

What does Lady W that angers Lord W?

Answer 16

cuts cover from bank book

Question 17

how does Mrs E enter the party?

Answer 17

she sails into the room

Question 18

Mrs E - with

Answer 18

“with a proper background women can do anything”

Question 19

Mrs E - to

Answer 19

“To save you from the abyss into which you are falling, there is nothing in the world I would not dare”

Question 20

Lord D - game

Answer 20

“game of marriage”

Question 21

Lady P - the

Answer 21

“the world has grown so suspicious of happy married life”

Question 22

Lady W - London

Answer 22

“London is full of women who trust their husbands…they look so thoroughly unhappy”

Question 23

Lord D - do you

Answer 23

“do you think that the wife should not console herself?”

Question 24

Lady W - Windermere

Answer 24

‘Windermere and I married for love’;
Duchess: ‘Yes, we begin like that’

Question 25

DOB - just

Answer 25

“just take him abroad, and he’ll come back to you alright”

Question 26

Mrs E - on morality

Answer 26

manners before morals

Question 27

Mrs E - repentance

Answer 27

“repentance is quite out of date”

Question 28

Lord and Lady W on Mrs E

Answer 28

“a clever woman”
“a good woman”

Question 29

Lady W - i dont

Answer 29

“I don’t think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad”

Question 30

Mrs E - dont

Answer 30

“Don’t spoil the one good thing i have done in my life by telling it to anyone”

Question 31

Cecil Graham - on women

Answer 31

“wicked women bother one. Good women bore one”

Question 32

Lady W - i will

Answer 32

“I will have no one in my house about whom there is any scandal”

Question 33

Lord W - i dare

Answer 33

“I dare not tell her who this woman really is. The shame would kill her”

Question 34

Lord D - pay

Answer 34

“(compliments) are the only things we can pay”

Question 35

DOB - what

Answer 35

“What a charming, wicked creature!”

Question 36

DOB - the whole

Answer 36

“the whole of london knows it”

Question 37

Mrs E - what

Answer 37

“What a bore it is to have to be civil to these old dowagers!”

Question 38

DOB - augustus

Answer 38

“Augustus is completely infatuated about her. It is quite scandalous, for she is absolutely inadmissible into society”

Question 39

Lord D - love

Answer 39

“From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!”