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An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde
Bunny Books, Ink. , English

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY

Act I.  The Octagon Room in Sir Robert Chiltern\'s House in Grosvenor Square.

Act II.  Morning-room in Sir Robert Chiltern\'s House.

Act III.  The Library of Lord Goring\'s House in Curzon Street.

Act IV.  Same as Act II.

Time: The Present

Place: London.

The action of the play is completed within twenty-four hours.


  FIRST ACT

SCENE

The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern\'s house in Grosvenor Square.

[The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guestsAt the top of the staircase stands lady chiltern, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of ageShe receives the guests as they come upOver the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry--representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher--that is stretched on the staircase wallOn the right is the entrance to the music-roomThe sound of a string quartette is faintly heardThe entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms.  mrs. marchmont and lady basildon, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofaThey are types of exquisite fragilityTheir affectation of manner has a delicate charmWatteau would have loved to paint them.]

mrs. marchmont.  Going on to the Hartlocks\' to-night, Margaret?

lady basildon.  I suppose so.  Are you?

mrs. marchmont.  Yes.  Horribly tedious parties they give, don\'t they?

lady basildon.  Horribly tedious!  Never know why I go.  Never know why I go anywhere.

mrs. marchmont.  I come here to be educated.

lady basildon.  Ah! I hate being educated!

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