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Mrs. Allonby and Lord Illingworth are engaged in a flirtatious and witty conversation. Mrs. Allonby cannot stand one of the other guests, Hester Worsley, and she challenges Lord Illingworth to make Hester fall in love with him. Knowing Hester's puritan nature, Lord Illingworth views this as an interesting challenge and decides to accept.
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Charming fellow, Gerald Arbuthnot!
Mrs. Allonby. He is very nice; very nice indeed. But I can’t stand the American young lady.
Lord Illingworth. Why?
Mrs. Allonby. She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It was most annoying.
Lord Illingworth. One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman
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