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RhACT III. THE ARCHDEACON It is very kind of you, but Mrs. Daubeny never touches solids now. Lives entirely on jellies. But she is wonderfully cheerful, wonderfully cheerful. She has nothing to complain of.

MRS. ALLONBY [Goes over to LORD ILLINGWORTH.] There is a beautiful moon to-night.

LORD ILLINGWORTH Let us go and look at it. To look at anything that is inconstant is charming nowadays.

MRS. ALLONBY You have your looking-glass.

LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. It merely shows me my wrinkles.

MRS. ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth. 129