A WOMAN OF
ACT IV.
Now, remember my advice to you—start at once with Lord Illingworth.
MRS. ALLONBY
Au revoir, Mr. Arbuthnot. Mind you bring me back something nice from your travels—not an Indian shawl—on no account an Indian shawl.[Exeunt.]
GERALD
Mother, I have just written to him.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
To whom?
GERALD
To my father. I have written to tell him to come here at four o'clock this afternoon.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
He shall not come here. He shall not cross the threshold of my house.
GERALD
He must come.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
Gerald, if you are going away with Lord
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