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RhACT III. MRS. ALLONBY [Surveying the room through her lorgnette.] It looks quite the happy English home.

LADY HUNSTANTON That's just the word, dear; that just describes it. One feels your mother's good influence in everything she has about her, Gerald.

MRS. ALLONBY Lord Illingworth says that all influence is bad, but that a good influence is the worst in the world.

LADY HUNSTANTON When Lord Illingworth knows Mrs. Arbuthnot better he will change his mind. I must certainly bring him here.

MRS. ALLONBY I should like to see Lord Illingworth in a happy English home.

LADY HUNSTANTON It would do him a great deal of good, 151