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RhACT I. LORD ILLINGWORTH Tell her ladyship we are coming in.

FRANCIS Yes, my lord.

LORD ILLINGWORTH Shall we go in to tea?

MRS. ALLONBY Do you like such simple pleasures?

LORD ILLINGWORTH I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. But, if you wish, let us stay here. Yes, let us stay here. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.

MRS. ALLONBY It ends with Revelations.

LORD ILLINGWORTH You fence divinely. But the button has come off your foil.

MRS. ALLONBY I have still the mask. 44