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 leave town I never tell my people where I am going. if I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I dare say, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into ones life. I suppose you think me awfully foolish about it?" "Not at all", answered Lord Henry laying his hand upon his shoulder; not at all my dear Basil. You seem to forget that I am married, and the charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception abolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet- we do meet occasionly, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's- we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces. My wife is very good at it, much better than I am. She never gets confused over her dates, and I always do. But when she does find me out, she never makes a row. I sometimes wish she did, but she merely laughs at me." -"I hate the way you talk