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Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband2. SECOND ACT (continued)MRS. CHEVELEY. Yes. I missed it when I got back to Claridge's, and I thought I might possibly have dropped it here. LADY CHILTERN. I have heard nothing about it. But I will send for the butler and ask. [Touches the bell.] MRS. CHEVELEY. Oh, pray don't trouble, Lady Chiltern. I dare say I lost it at the Opera, before we came on here. LADY MARKBY. Ah yes, I suppose it must have been at the Opera. The fact is, we all scramble and jostle so much nowadays that I wonder we have anything at all left on us at the end of an evening. I know myself that, when I am coming back from the Drawing Room, I always feel as if I hadn't a shred on me, except a small shred of decent reputation, just enough to prevent the lower classes making painful observations through the windows of the carriage. The fact is that our Society is terribly over-populated. Really, some one should arrange a proper scheme of assisted emigration. It would do a great deal of good. MRS. CHEVELEY. I quite agree with you, Lady Markby. It is nearly six years since I have been in London for the Season, and I must say Society has become dreadfully mixed. One sees the oddest people everywhere. LADY MARKBY. That is quite true, dear. But one needn't know them. I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. [Enter MASON.] LADY CHILTERN. What sort of a brooch was it that you lost, Mrs. Cheveley? MRS. CHEVELEY. A diamond snake-brooch with a ruby, a rather large ruby. LADY MARKBY. I thought you said there was a sapphire on the head, dear? MRS. CHEVELEY [Smiling.] No, lady Markby - a ruby. LADY MARKBY. [Nodding her head.] And very becoming, I am quite sure. This is page 50 of 105. [Mark this Page] Mark any page to add this title to Your Bookshelf. (0 / 10 books on shelf) Buy a copy of An Ideal Husband at Amazon.com
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