A WOMAN OF
ACT I.
plain women being Puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain. But she is decidedly pretty. I admire her immensely. [Looks stedfastly at MRS. ALLONBY.]
MRS. ALLONBY
What a thoroughly bad man you must be!
LORD ILLINGWORTH
What do you call a bad man?
MRS. ALLONBY
The sort of man who admires innocence.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
And a bad woman?
MRS. ALLONBY
Oh! the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
You are severe—on yourself.
MRS. ALLONBY
Define us as a sex.
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