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RhACT III. LORD ILLINGWORTH The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

LADY HUNSTANTON Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say. You and I, dear Mrs. Arbuthnot, are behind the age. We can't follow Lord Illingworth. Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT I should be sorry to follow Lord Illingworth in any of his opinions.

LADY HUNSTANTON You are quite right, dear.

[GERALD ''shrugs his shoulders and looks irritably over at his mother. Enter'' LADY CAROLINE.]

LADY CAROLINE Jane, have you seen John anywhere? 119