A WOMAN OF
ACT III.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
It is not what Lord Illingworth believes, or what he does not believe, that makes him bad. It is what he is.
GERALD
Mother, is it something you know of him? Something you actually know?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
It is something I know.
GERALD
Something you are quite sure of?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
Quite sure of.
GERALD
How long have you known it?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT
For twenty years.
GERALD
Is it fair to go back twenty years in any man's career? And what have you or I to do with Lord Illingworth's early life? What business is it of ours?
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