opinion of your boy. You don't know Lord Illingworth, I believe, dear.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
I have never met him.
LADY HUNSTANTON
You know him by name, no doubt?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
I am afraid I don't. I live so much out of the world, and see so few people. I remember hearing years ago of an old Lord Illingworth who lived in Yorkshire, I think.
LADY HUNSTANTON
Ah, yes. That would be the last Earl but one. He was a very curious man. He wanted to marry beneath him. Or wouldn't, I believe. There was some scandal about it. The present Lord Illingworth is quite different. He is very distinguished. He does—well, he does nothing, which I am afraid our pretty American visitor here thinks very wrong of anybody, and I don't know that he cares much for the subjects
