You don’t call that leading an idle life, do you? How can you say such a thing? Why, he rides in the Row at ten o’clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. Why do you call Lord Goring good-for-nothing? I don’t think Lord Goring has arrived yet. Good evening, Lady Chiltern! Has my good-for- nothing young son been here? Terribly trivial! What did your man talk about? The man who took me in to dinner talked to me about his wife the whole time. I don’t see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose. It puts one almost on a level with the commercial classes, doesn’t it? But dear Gertrude Chiltern is always telling me that I should have some serious purpose in life. Horribly tedious parties they give, don’t they? Going on to the Hartlocks’ to-night, Margaret? The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern’s house in Grosvenor Square. Harry Stanford.ĬOUNTESS OF BASILDON, Miss Vane Featherston. The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours. The Library of Lord Goring’s House in Curzon Street. Morning-room in Sir Robert Chiltern’s House. The Octagon Room in Sir Robert Chiltern’s House in Grosvenor Square.ĪCT II. MISS MABEL CHILTERN, Sir Robert Chiltern’s Sister MRS. MASON, Butler to Sir Robert Chiltern PHIPPS, Lord Goring’s Servant SIR ROBERT CHILTERN, Bart., Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs VICOMTE DE NANJAC, Attache at the French Embassy in London MR.
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