A WOMAN OF
ACT III.
to me. No one ever had such a mother as I have had.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
I am quite sure of that. Still I should imagine that most mothers don't quite understand their sons. Don't realise, I mean, that a son has ambitions, a desire to see life, to make himself a name. After all, Gerald, you couldn't be expected to pass all your life in such a hole as Wrockley, could you?
GERALD
Oh, no! It would be dreadful!
LORD ILLINGWORTH
A mother's love is very touching, of course, but it is often curiously selfish. I mean, there is a good deal of selfishness in it.
GERALD
[Slowly.] I suppose there is.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Your mother is a thoroughly good woman. But good women have such
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