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NO IMPORTANCE

ACT III.

LORD ILLINGWORTH
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

LADY HUNSTANTON
Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say. You and I, dear Mrs. Arbuthnot, are behind the age. We can't follow Lord Illingworth. Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT
I should be sorry to follow Lord Illingworth in any of his opinions.

LADY HUNSTANTON
You are quite right, dear.

[GERALD shrugs his shoulders and looks irritably over at his mother. Enter LADY CAROLINE.]

LADY CAROLINE
Jane, have you seen John anywhere?

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