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RhACT I. of marriage make her something like a public building.

MRS. ALLONBY Twenty years of romance! Is there such a thing?

LORD ILLINGWORTH Not in our day. Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

MRS. ALLONBY Or the want of it in the man.

LORD ILLINGWORTH You are quite right. In a Temple every one should be serious, except the thing that is worshipped.

MRS. ALLONBY And that should be man?

LORD ILLINGWORTH Women kneel so gracefully; men don't.

MRS. ALLONBY You are thinking of Lady Stutfield! 34