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RhACT I. LADY HUNSTANTON He is an admirable young man. And his mother is one of my dearest friends. He has just gone for a walk with our pretty American. She is very pretty, is she not?

LADY CAROLINE Far too pretty. These American girls carry off all the good matches. Why can't they stay in their own country? They are always telling us it is the Paradise of women.

LORD ILLINGWORTH It is, Lady Caroline. That is why, like Eve, they are so extremely anxious to get out of it.

LADY CAROLINE Who are Miss Worsley's parents?

LORD ILLINGWORTH American women are wonderfully clever in concealing their parents.

LADY HUNSTANTON My dear Lord Illingworth, what do you mean? Miss Worsley, Caroline, is an 18