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NO IMPORTANCE
ACT I.

LADY CAROLINE

You must allow me to be the best judge of that, John. Pray do as I tell you. [SIR JOHN gets up and goes off.]

LADY HUNSTANTON
You spoil him, Caroline, you do indeed!

[Enter MRS. ALLONBY and LADY STUTFIELD.]

[To MRS. ALLONBY.] Well, dear, I hope you like the park. It is said to be well timbered.

MRS. ALLONBY
The trees are wonderful, Lady Hunstanton.

LADY STUTFIELD
Quite, quite wonderful.

MRS. ALLONBY
But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

LADY HUNSTANTON

I assure you, dear, that the country has

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