NO IMPORTANCE
ACT III.
THE ARCHDEACON
It is very kind of you, but Mrs. Daubeny never touches solids now. Lives entirely on jellies. But she is wonderfully cheerful, wonderfully cheerful. She has nothing to complain of.[Exit With LADY HUNSTANTON.]
MRS. ALLONBY
[Goes over to LORD ILLINGWORTH.] There is a beautiful moon to-night.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Let us go and look at it. To look at anything that is inconstant is charming nowadays.
MRS. ALLONBY
You have your looking-glass.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
It is unkind. It merely shows me my wrinkles.
MRS. ALLONBY
Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth.
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