A WOMAN OF
ACT I.
LORD ILLINGWORTH
Tell her ladyship we are coming in.
FRANCIS
Yes, my lord. [Exit.]
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.
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