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NO IMPORTANCE

ACT I.

LADY STUTFIELD
Yes; I see that. It is very, very helpful.

LADY HUNSTANTON
I don't know how the world would get on with such a theory as that, dear Mrs. Allonby.

LADY STUTFIELD
Ah! The world was made for men and not for women.

MRS. ALLONBY
Oh, don't say that, Lady Stutfield. We have a much better time than they have. There are far more things forbidden to us than are forbidden to them.

LADY STUTFIELD
Yes; that is quite, quite true. I had not thought of that.

[Enter SIR JOHN and MR. KELVIL.]

LADY HUNSTANTON
Well, Mr. Kelvil, have you got through your work?

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