A WOMAN OF
ACT I.
of marriage make her something like a public building.
MRS. ALLONBY
Twenty years of romance! Is there such a thing?
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Not in our day. Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
MRS. ALLONBY
Or the want of it in the man.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
You are quite right. In a Temple every one should be serious, except the thing that is worshipped.
MRS. ALLONBY
And that should be man?
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Women kneel so gracefully; men don't.
MRS. ALLONBY
You are thinking of Lady Stutfield!
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