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RhACT II. us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

MRS. ALLONBY Oh, they're quite out of date.

LADY STUTFJELD Except amongst the middle classes, I have been told.

MBS. ALLONBY How like the middle classes!

LADY STUTFIELD Yes—is it not?—very, very like them.

LADY CAROLINE If what you tell us about the middle classes is true, Lady Stutfield, it redounds greatly to their credit. It is much to be regretted that in our rank of life the wife should be so persistently frivolous, under the impression apparently that it is the proper thing to be. It is to that I attribute the unhappiness of so many marriages we all know of in society. 59