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ACT I.
LADY HUNSTANTON
I will write and tell her about it, and ask her to come up and meet him. [To Footman.] Just wait, Francis. [Writes letter.]
LADY CAROLINE
That is a very wonderful opening for so young a man as you are, Mr. Arbuthnot.
GERALD
It is indeed, Lady Caroline. I trust I shall be able to show myself worthy of it.
LADY CAROLINE
I trust so.
GERALD
[To HESTER.] You have not congratulated me yet, Miss Worsley.
HESTER
Are you very pleased about it?
GERALD
Of course I am. It means everything to me—things that were out of the reach of hope before may be within hope's reach now.
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