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RhACT IV. Illingworth, go at once. Go before it kills me: but don't ask me to meet him.

GERALD Mother, you don't understand. Nothing in the world would induce me to go away with Lord Illingworth, or to leave you. Surely you know me well enough for that. No: I have written to him to say

MRS. ARBUTHNOT What can you have to say to him?

GERALD Can't you guess, mother, what I have written in this letter?

MRS. ARBUTHNOT No.

GERALD Mother, surely you can. Think, think what must be done, now, at once, within the next few days.

MRS. ARBUTHNOT There is nothing to be done. 159