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RhACT I. MRS. ALLONBY We should each have survived.

LORD ILLINGWORTH One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

MRS. ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?

LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.

MRS. ALLONBY It may come.

LORD ILLINGWORTH Why do you threaten me?

MRS. ALLONBY I will tell you when you have kissed the Puritan.

[Enter Footman.]

FRANCIS Tea is served in the Yellow Drawing-room, my lord. 43