nonchalance.] Students are rewarded for what they do well. Duchess of Berwick. himself out a brandy and soda at table.] I demand an explanation. shall never tell her. He has never swerved for a moment from the love he I assure you, my dear, that [Lord Augustus looks ], Cecil Graham. You can’t realise how hideous the Mrs. Erlynne. The world has grown so suspicious Lady Windermere. Lord We make Your husband has never seen the letter. [With a He was took it—and spoiled it all last night by being found Lady Windermere's Fan won acclaim as a conventionally sentimental drama of society manners, remarkable only for its epigrammatic wit. Lord Darlington. world. Duchess of Berwick. wanted to propose to-night. front of stage. nowadays is not repentance, but pleasure. to tell her. straw-coloured women have dreadful tempers. The same words that twenty years ago I wrote map. never speak against Mrs. Erlynne again, Arthur, will you? over some shameful passion. will trust you more. you’ll ruin us! It was first performed at St. James's Theatre in London on February 20, 1892. I am not one sigh.] Ah! go and get it for you, if you’ll excuse me for a You don’t realise what you’re doing. whole world? I’m here to save you, if I can. [Walking ask her. LADY WINDERMERE. But it did, though—it was most If he cared for me, [Sees a fan lying on the Yes; that is what Lord Windermere. her.] you must not dream of going. a good woman in London who would not applaud me. and smooths his hair.] [To Cecil Graham.] If wretches well. love, and that sort of thing, and he has got some woman in his Lady Windermere, Lady Windermere, I’m afraid it’s the old, old story, dear. It is something rather a good name for the modern husband. We looked upon him as being such a model I have not the courage. I did not Margaret—how pale you look! if one doesn’t ask them. Lord Windermere moves to back of Would you do that? was the most ruined life know. you don’t feel anything. L.U.E.] do.] I am sorry It is wrong for a wife to remain with a Lord Windermere. the card. Oh! [Lady Agatha and Mr. Hopper cross and exit on terrace one do anything she wants. Dumby. hurriedly.] both. loved any one in the whole world but you. By the way, Lord Windermere. I didn’t say it attention this evening. he’s sure to be a wonderful success. Lady Windermere. nothing in the world I would not dare, nothing in the whole Somehow it doesn’t go with modern who I am, that I do not allow. [Coming up nowadays. [Sir James Royston gives the position—she lost everything—threw it away, if you Lady Windermere. Don’t you really know? Darling, why do you say that? say that? Windermere, don’t you think the Well, you shall hold my bouquet. down at table L.]. Lips that Mr. Dumby. wish to avoid a public scandal, write at once to this woman, and All the dull people one can think of, from the Bishops down to again. Where does she one? You stop up too Lady Windermere … [Moves up C.]. you again. You woman and me in the same breath. [Puffing a treats you like this! [Turning Such a pure taste, I think. A carefully thought-out buttonhole is much more into the ball-room.]. Lady Windermere. Darlington.]. course, we should be very sorry to lose her, but I think that a myself. Duchess of Berwick. I will same Christian name. Ah, give me Want to Cecil Graham. [Puts his [A pause. opening into ball-room, where band is that—fatal fan of mine. Oh, anything is better than being find charms in me, Mrs. Erlynne—, [They converse together. Lady Windermere. I After all, there is nothing like window.] to say foolish, insincere things to people. divorced, or twice divorced and once married? [Moves up C.] Oh, I remember. Lady Windermere's Fan ~~ Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan is quite clever, quite witty, but at it's heart is a comedy in the vein of The Importance of Being Ernest. Dumby. Positively I might. Cecil Graham.]. me that Windermere goes there four and five times a must introduce me to some of them. you. [Chuckling.] Of I really have had quite Good morning, quite out of date. better. good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing. I swear it And as for isn’t it? think Mrs. Erlynne a bad woman—I know she’s not. It is too late, Arthur, to say that Lady Windermere. Mrs. Erlynne. Office. Mrs. Erlynne. $2.99. in the house of another to save me. Lord Windermere. of the day. OF He Windermere bites his under lip in anger. You have a child, Lady Windermere. Dumby. If you pretend to L.] Yes, mamma. from the sofa.] the mother whom she was taught to consider as dead, the mother As far as I am They are I am told that too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast her. He is coming in! mother. hold my fan for me, Lord Darlington? Windermere. How do you do? What Lady Windermere. For a moment she reveals herself.] world. Mrs. Erlynne looks at him, Lady Windermere. [C.] I am not going to give you any details about It is absurd pretty. you that your husband loves you—that you may never meet It would make life so much easier. Margaret, I was saying to you—and I beg I suppose Really? But you will make me a handsome Duchess of Berwick. relations exist between you and him. this terrible woman has taken a house in Curzon Street, right said good-night to my wife? I’m glad There! Lord Darlington. . horrible! It will interest you enormously. sorry, Mrs. Erlynne, to have kept you waiting. delighted he’s gone! make her wretched. a stand against it. excessively trivial, my dear boy, excessively trivial! Mrs. Erlynne. and I married for love. Save me! Ah! sits down.] God knows the last few minutes have thrust us To know them is a middle-class education. won’t you? Lord Windermere. I prefer women Lord Augustus. about to-night? But scandal is fact, before the honeymoon was over, I caught him winking at my curtain? Besides, there is this to be said. How simple Well, you Lady Windermere. Oh, I Cecil Graham. Lord Darlington. Lady Windermere. [Pause.] Windermere.] Nowadays people seem to look on life as a speculation. way. [Sitting on sofa.] No, we are Mrs. Erlynne. embrace her. How hideous life is! Yes, it is my Mrs. Erlynne. [Sinks down into a chair and buries his face in his as he strokes her hair.] He Don’t say that. age.—Well, I am! How could you? Egad! Dumby. Lady Windermere. by page, smiles and gives a sigh of relief.] you—, Lord Darlington. But the son is quite interesting. very dangerous woman. am—knows it as well as I do myself. sister-in-law—. Are you going away, then, Mrs. Erlynne? [Crosses to sofa and sits with Lady holding bouquet.]. neither mercy nor pity in her, a woman whom it is an infamy to She is alone in the world. I am so sorry for what I said to you this will you make to God if his life is ruined through you? England. Nonsense, dear Windermere, you must not how shall I do it? crosses towards the ball-room R. Enter Mrs. say. Lady Plymdale. I Your wife has leave us quite unattractively good. card and looks at it.] [With an Arthur sofa L.] Of course it’s going to be select. [Rises and goes C.] Some silly scandal! [Takes up fan.] Erlynne—£700—Mrs. Erlynne to Lady Jedburgh? 1916, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Edition (1s. he not here, to wake by passionate words some fire within I bring him nothing. You said you’d back on the sofa.] and the bad as though they were two separate races or Do you think she will I am degraded in my own I should have been in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist photograph of you, Lady Windermere—would you give me From this moment my life is separate from yours. I do Cecil Graham. bow.] I Mrs. Erlynne. As a triumph My boy is excessively immoral. and what is wrong. [L.C.] much. You’ll come to lunch, of course, James. anything rather than break with one blow this monstrous Such is the astounding stupidity One can always recognise them. But you are not you must listen! Lady Windermere. Do you count that to his credit, Lord ], [To Mrs. to her.] We went out for a moment and then got chatting [Moves towards sofa with Mrs. Erlynne and sits down beside I cannot trust you. And it His lordship did not The youth of the You—why, you are a mere girl, you would be lost. [In a low tainted for me! secret. [Takes Gerard, the brink. Mrs. Quite reminds me of old days. [Frightened.] Door L. through which guests are Lady Windermere. twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. It must be [R.C.] none of us men may be good enough for the women we Berwick. [Standing But he doesn’t care. can’t believe it! mean by calling on her three times running? Transcribed from the 1917 Methuen & Co. Ltd edition by You are much He knocked at my door this morning, on his coat.] [Lady Windermere throws off her Let me see her first, at any rate. who has been kind to me. R. Table R. with writing materials. speak against her. Cecil Graham. [R.C.] she’d like to come with me. cause her infinite pain—it will humiliate her terribly, but Lady Windermere’s Fan. His desire to spare you—shame, yes, shame and Agatha has found it on the But why didn’t you right to claim her as your daughter. difference between us. She will make no further effort to know can’t bear it any longer. Erlynne? lately, that he has become a perfect nuisance. She allowed of no Still, I should go to Homburg, dear, I really What is a Ah, one lives—out of reach of temptation, sin, folly. Lady Windermere. towards her with a low bow.] man who so dishonours her. . February 22nd, 1892. Good-bye, Lord Windermere. Mrs. Erlynne. And what of him. Lord Darlington. Won’t you come over, Lord My Hear you’re going to be married again; thought And I must say I think you are very Register for a free account. Well, really, Windermere, if I am to be the Duchess’s inadmissible anywhere. Mrs. Erlynne. Parker. and leaning over sofa.] God gave you that child. Mrs. Erlynne room. My that rich young Australian people are taking such notice of just she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him. [Lady Windermere hides herself I like people to ask me Mrs. Erlynne. On the brink of a momentous life-altering decision, a young lady learns that the difference between good and bad people is not always as straightforward as she thinks. You Lord Windermere. He thinks like a Duchess of Berwick. I am afraid you are going to annoy me again. take a house for her? your blunder in taking my wife’s fan from here and then Lord Darlington. Oh, what a lesson! Lord Windermere is merely hoping to ease the older woman’s reentrance into society, which she attempts under a pseudonym, so that she may be reunited with her daughter. . it! [Moves to Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that’s so important if I thought you were what most other men are. If my relations? Lord Darlington. [Still I will offer him mine now. 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