NO IMPORTANCE
ACT IV.
Illingworth, go at once. Go before it kills me: but don't ask me to meet him.
GERALD
Mother, you don't understand. Nothing in the world would induce me to go away with Lord Illingworth, or to leave you. Surely you know me well enough for that. No: I have written to him to say
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
What can you have to say to him?
GERALD
Can't you guess, mother, what I have written in this letter?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
No.
GERALD
Mother, surely you can. Think, think what must be done, now, at once, within the next few days.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
There is nothing to be done.
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