NO IMPORTANCE
ACT I.
MRS. ALLONBY
We should each have survived.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
MRS. ALLONBY
Have you tried a good reputation?
LORD ILLINGWORTH
It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.
MRS. ALLONBY
It may come.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Why do you threaten me?
MRS. ALLONBY
I will tell you when you have kissed the Puritan.
[Enter Footman.]
FRANCIS
Tea is served in the Yellow Drawing-room, my lord.
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