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RhACT IV. Now, remember my advice to you—start at once with Lord Illingworth.

MRS. ALLONBY Au revoir, Mr. Arbuthnot. Mind you bring me back something nice from your travels—not an Indian shawl—on no account an Indian shawl.

GERALD Mother, I have just written to him.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT To whom?

GERALD To my father. I have written to tell him to come here at four o'clock this afternoon.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT He shall not come here. He shall not cross the threshold of my house.

GERALD He must come.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT Gerald, if you are going away with Lord 158