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RhACT I. LADY HUNSTANTON What are you saying, Lord Illingworth, about the drum?

LORD ILLINGWORTH I was merely talking to Mrs. Allonby about the leading articles in the London newspapers.

LADY HUNSTANTON But do you believe all that is written in the newspapers?

LORD ILLINGWORTH I do. Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs. [Rises with MRS. ALLONBY.]

LADY HUNSTANTON Are you going, Mrs. Allonby?

MRS. ALLONBY Just as far as the conservatory. Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins. 25