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RhACT I. myself don't believe she ran away more than once.

HESTER Mr. Arbuthnot is very charming.

LADY CAROLINE Ah, yes! the young man who has a post in a bank. Lady Hunstanton is most kind in asking him here, and Lord Illingworth seems to have taken quite a fancy to him. I am not sure, however, that Jane is right in taking him out of his position. In my young days, Miss Worsley, one never met any one in society who worked for their living. It was not considered the thing.

HESTER In America those are the people we respect most.

LADY CAROLINE I have no doubt of it.

HESTER Mr. Arbuthnot has a beautiful nature! He is so simple, so sincere. He has one 4