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RhACT II. had told me was perfectly true. And that sort of thing makes a man so absolutely uninteresting.

LADY HUNSTANTON My dear!

MRS. ALLONBY Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.

LADY STUTFIELD I see what you mean. It's very, very beautiful.

LADY HUNSTANTON My dear child, you don't mean to tell me that you won't forgive your husband because he never loved any one else? Did you ever hear such a thing, Caroline? I am quite surprised.

LADY CAROLINE Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise 58