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ACT III.
MRS. ALLONBY
[Surveying the room through her lorgnette.] It looks quite the happy English home.
LADY HUNSTANTON
That's just the word, dear; that just describes it. One feels your mother's good influence in everything she has about her, Gerald.
MRS. ALLONBY
Lord Illingworth says that all influence is bad, but that a good influence is the worst in the world.
LADY HUNSTANTON
When Lord Illingworth knows Mrs. Arbuthnot better he will change his mind. I must certainly bring him here.
MRS. ALLONBY
I should like to see Lord Illingworth in a happy English home.
LADY HUNSTANTON
It would do him a great deal of good,
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