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35 ALG My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree. JACK I can quite understand that. ALG Well, Cecily is a darling. JACK You are not to talk of Miss Cardew like that. I don’t like it. ALG Well, I don’t like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don’t you go up and change? It is perfectly childish to be in deep mourning for a man who is actually staying for a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque. JACK You are certainly not staying with me for a whole week as a guest or anything else. You have got to leave... by the four-five train. ALG I certainly won’t leave you so long as you are in mourning. It would be most unfriendly. If I were in mourning you would stay with me, I suppose. I should think it very unkind if you didn’t. JACK Well, will you go if I change my clothes? ALG Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result. JACK Well, at any rate, that is better than being always over- dressed as you are. ALG If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated. JACK Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd. However, you have got to catch the four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey back to town. This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success for you. [Goes into the house.] ALG I think it has been a great success. I’m in love with Cecily, and that is everything. [Enter Cecily at the back of the garden. She picks up the can and begins to water the flowers.] But I must see her before I go, and make arrangements for another Bunbury. Ah, there she is. CEC Oh, I merely came back to water the roses. I thought you were with Uncle Jack. ALG He’s gone to order the dog-cart for me. |
