ACT IV.
card. [Takes card from salver and looks at it.] Say I will not see him.
[LORD ILLINGWORTH enters. MRS. ARBUTHNOT sees him in the glass and starts, but does not turn round. Exit ALICE.]
What can you have to say to me to-day, George Harford? You can have nothing to say to me. You must leave this house.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Rachel, Gerald knows everything about you and me now, so some arrangement must be come to that will suit us all three. I assure you, he will find in me the most charming and generous of fathers.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
My son may come in at any moment. I saved you last night. I may not be able to save you again. My son feels my dishonour strongly, terribly strongly. I beg you to go.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
[Sitting down.] Last night was excessively unfortunate. That silly Puritan girl
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