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NO IMPORTANCE

ACT I.

LORD ILLINGWORTH
I assure you I have not thought of Lady Stutfield for the last quarter of an hour.

MRS. ALLONBY
Is she such a mystery?

LORD ILLINGWORTH
She is more than a mystery—she is a mood.

MRS. ALLONBY
Moods don't last.

LORD ILLINGWORTH
It is their chief charm.

[Enter HESTER and GERALD.]

GERALD
Lord Illingworth, every one has been congratulating me, Lady Hunstanton and Lady Caroline, and . . . every one. I hope I shall make a good secretary.

LORD ILLINGWORTH
You will be the pattern secretary, Gerald. [Talks to him.]

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