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Hey! Hey!

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There he is!

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Where's he going?

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-Bastard!

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Stop!

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You won't get away, sir!

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Time to pay your debt.

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Hey!

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Did you hear
what I was playing, Lane?

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I didn't think it
polite to listen, sir.

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I'm sorry for that,
for your sake.

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I don't play accurately--
anyone can play accurately--

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but I play with
wonderful expression.

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Yes, sir.

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Bills, bills, bills--
all I ever get is bills.

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And then
there's the matter...

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of my unpaid wages, sir.

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Yet again the wasteful habits
of my brother Ernest...

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tear me from my duties here.

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Yes, sir.

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It's a terrible nuisance,
but there's nothing to be done.

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I shall return Monday afternoon.

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Yes, sir.

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Pay particular attention,
if you will, Miss Prism...

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to her German grammar.

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Yes, Mr. Worthing.

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I don't suppose you've
found my cigarette case...

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have you, Merriman?

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We're still looking, sir.

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Walk on.

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Hey!

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Excuse me.

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Ernest!

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-Algy!
-How are you, my dear Ernest?

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-What brings you up to town?
-Oh, pleasure, pleasure.

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What else should
bring one anywhere?

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Where have you been
since last Thursday?

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In the country.

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You're always in the country.
What on earth do you do there?

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Well, when one is in town,
one amuses oneself.

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When one is in the country,
one amuses other people.

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It's excessively boring.

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-Who are these people you amuse?
-Oh, neighbours, neighbours.

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Nice neighbours in
your part of Shropshire?

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Perfectly horrid.
Never speak to one of them.

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How immensely
you must amuse them.

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By the way, Shropshire
is your country, is it not?

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-What?
-Shropshire.

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-Shropshire?
-Mm.

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Oh, yes, of course.

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Say. dear boy...

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What plans have you got
for tea tomorrow?

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You know perfectly well...

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that Aunt Augusta is
coming to tea tomorrow.

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-Aunt Augusta?
-Yes. Aunt Augusta...

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And Gwendolen.

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How perfectly delightful.

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Perhaps I might pay my respects.

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Yes, that is all very well,
but I'm afraid Aunt Augusta...

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won't approve
of your being there.

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Why do you say that?

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My dear fellow, the way
that you flirt with Gwendolen...

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is perfectly disgraceful.

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It's almost as bad as the way
Gwendolen flirts with you.

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-I am in love with Gwendolen.
-Ahh.

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And I have come up to town
expressly to propose to her.

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I thought you came up
for pleasure.

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I call that business.

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Oh, how utterly
unromantic you are.

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I really don't see what there
is romantic about proposing.

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Why, one may be accepted.
One usually is, I believe.

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And then--Ha ha!--
the excitement is over.

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No. The very essence of
romance is uncertainty.

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Twenty-five a player.

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Anyway, I certainly
can't see...

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you and Gwendolen
being married.

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Why on earth do you say that?

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Well, in the first place,
I don't give my consent.

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Your consent?

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My dear fellow,
Gwendolen is my cousin...

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and before I allow you
to marry her...

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you shall have to clear up
this whole question of Cecily.

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-Cecily?
-Mm.

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What on earth do you mean?

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I don't know anyone
by the name of Cecily.

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Do you mean you have had
my cigarette case all this time?

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I wish to goodness
you had let me know.

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I've been writing frantic
letters to Scotland Yard.

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I was very nearly offering
a very large reward.

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I wish you would offer one.

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I happen to be more
than usually hard up.

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It makes no matter...

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for I see now the thing
isn't yours after all.

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Of course it's mine.

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You have seen me with it
a hundred times.

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Not according
to the inscription.

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And you have
no right whatsoever...

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to read what is written inside.

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It is a very
ungentlemanly thing...

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to read
a private cigarette case.

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Yes, but this isn't
your cigarette case.

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This cigarette case
is a present from someone...

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of the name of Cecily,
and you said...

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you didn't know
anyone of that name.

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Well, if you want to know,
Cecily happens to be my aunt.

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Your aunt?

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Yes. charming old lady
she is, too.

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Lives at Tunbridge Wells.
Just give it back to me, Algy.

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Yes, but why does your aunt
call you her uncle?

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"From little Cecily,
with her fondest love...

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"to her dear Uncle Jack."
Mmm.

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There is no objection, I admit,
to an aunt being a small aunt...

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but why an aunt, no matter
what her size may be...

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should call
her own nephew her uncle...

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I can't quite make out.

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Besides, your name isn't
Jack at all--it's Ernest.

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It isn't Ernest, it's Jack.

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You've always told me
it was Ernest.

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I've introduced you
to everyone as Ernest.

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It is perfectly absurd your
saying your name isn't Ernest.

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It's on your cards.
Here is one of them.

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"Mr. Ernest Worthing,
B.4, The Albany."

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Well, it is Ernest in town
and Jack in the country...

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and the cigarette case
was given to me in the country.

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So I've always pretended
to have a younger brother.

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Ah, of the name of Ernest.
And little Cecily?

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My ward, Miss Cecily Cardew.

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Where is that place
in the country, by the way?

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That is nothing
to you, dear boy.

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You are certainly not
going to be invited.

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I may tell you candidly
the place is not in Shropshire.

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Oh, I suspected that,
my dear fellow...

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just as I suspected you
to be a Bunburyist.

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Indeed, you are one
of the most advanced...

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Bunburyists I know.

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See you at five.

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Moncrieff!

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A quick word, sir!

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"Bunburyist"?

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Cecily, your German grammar
is on the table.

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Pray open it at page fifteen.

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We will repeat
yesterday's lesson.

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But I don't like German.

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It isn't at all
a becoming language.

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I know perfectly well...

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I look quite plain
after my German lesson.

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Child, you know how
anxious your guardian is...

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that you should improve
yourself in every way.

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Dear Uncle Jack
is so very serious.

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Sometimes I think he is so
serious he cannot be quite well.

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Cecily, I'm surprised at you.

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Mr. Worthing has many
troubles in his life.

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You must remember
his constant anxiety...

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about that unfortunate
young man, his brother.

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I wish Uncle Jack would allow
that unfortunate young man...

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his brother,
to come down here sometimes.

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We might have a good influence
over him, Miss Prism.

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I'm not sure that I would
desire to reclaim him.

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I'm not in favour
of this modern mania...

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for turning bad people
into good people...

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at a moment's notice.

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Cecily?

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Do your work, child.

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He, she, it praises.

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"Bunburyist"?

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What on earth do you mean
by a "Bunburyist"?

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You have invented
a very useful younger brother...

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called Ernest in order
that you may be able...

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to come up to town
as often as you like.

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I have invented...

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an invaluable permanent
invalid called Bunbury...

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in order that I may
be able to go down...

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to the country
as often as I choose.

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If it wasn't for Bunbury's
extraordinary bad health...

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for instance, I wouldn't
be able to dine with you...

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at the Savoy tonight,
for I've had an appointment...

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with Aunt Augusta
for more than a week.

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I haven't asked you to dine
with me anywhere tonight.

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I know.
You're absurdly careless...

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about giving out invitations.

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Don't touch
the cucumber sandwiches.

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They were ordered
especially for Aunt Augusta.

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You've been eating them
all the time.

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Well, that is quite
a different matter.

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She is my aunt.

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That must be her.

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Only relatives
or creditors ever ring...

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in that Wagnerian manner.

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Now, if I manage to get her
out of the way for 10 minutes...

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so that you may have
an opportunity...

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for proposing to Gwendolen...

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may I dine with you
at the Savoy tonight?

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Lady Bracknell
and Miss Fairfax.

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Good afternoon, dear Algy.

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I hope you are
behaving very well.

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I'm feeling very well,
Aunt Augusta.

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That's not quite
the same thing.

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In fact, the two things
rarely go together.

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Lady Bracknell, I--

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Oh, goodness, you are smart.

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I'm always smart.
Am I not, Mr. Worthing?

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You are quite perfect,
Miss Fairfax.

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I hope I am not that.

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It would leave no room
for development...

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and I intend to develop
in many directions.

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I'm sorry if
we're a little late, Algy.

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I was obliged to call
on dear Lady Harbury.

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I had not been there since
her poor husband's death.

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I never saw a woman so altered.

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She looks quite
twenty years younger.

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And now I'll have a cup
of tea and one of those...

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nice cucumber sandwiches
you promised me.

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Certainly, Aunt Augusta.

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Won't you sit here, Gwendolen?

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Thanks, Mama, I'm quite
comfortable where I am.

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Good heavens, Lane, why are
there no cucumber sandwiches?

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There were no cucumbers
in the market this morning, sir.

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-I went down twice.
-Oh, no cucumbers?

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No, sir.
Not even for ready money.

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-That will do, Lane.
-Thank you, sir.

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I am greatly distressed,
Aunt Augusta...

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about there being no cucumbers,
not even for ready money.

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It really makes no matter, Algy.

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I had some crumpets
with Lady Harbury.

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I've got quite a treat
for you tonight, Algy.

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I'm going to send you
down with Mary Farquhar.

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-She is such a nice--
-I'm afraid, Aunt Augusta...

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I shall have to give up
the pleasure...

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of dining with you tonight.

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I hope not, Algy.

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It will put my table
completely out.

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It is a great bore,
and I need hardly say...

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a terrible disappointment
to me...

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but I've just had
a telegram to say...

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that my poor friend Bunbury
is very ill again.

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They seem to think
I should be with him.

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Very strange.

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This Mr. Bunbury
seems to suffer...

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from curiously bad health.

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Yes, poor Bunbury
is a dreadful invalid.

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I must say, Algy,
I think it is high time...

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Mr. Bunbury made up his mind
whether to live or die.

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This shilly-shallying with
the question is absurd.

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I should be much obliged
if you would ask...

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Mr. Bunbury from me
to be kind enough...

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not to have a relapse
next Saturday.

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It is my last reception,
and I rely on you...

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to arrange my music for me.

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I'll speak to Bunbury,
Aunt Augusta...

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if he's still conscious.

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Now, if you'll follow me
into the next room...

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I'll run over
the musical program...

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I've already drawn up
for the occasion.

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Thank you, Algy.

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It is very
thoughtful of you.

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Gwendolen,
you will accompany me.

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Certainly, Mama.

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Charming day it has been,
Miss Fairfax.

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Pray don't talk to me about
the weather, Mr. Worthing.

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Whenever people talk
to me about the weather...

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I always feel quite certain
that they mean something else...

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and that makes me so nervous.

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-I do mean something else.
-I thought so.

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And I would like
to take advantage...

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of Lady Bracknell's
temporary absence--

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I would certainly
advise you to do so.

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Mama has a way of coming back
suddenly into a room...

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that I've often had
to speak to her about.

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Miss Fairfax,
ever since I met you...

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I have admired you
more than any girl...

00:14:21.986 --> 00:14:26.240
I have ever met since
I met you.

00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:28.910
Yes, I'm quite aware
of the fact.

00:14:28.910 --> 00:14:31.496
And I often wish that
in public, at any rate...

00:14:31.496 --> 00:14:33.623
you had been
more demonstrative.

00:14:33.623 --> 00:14:37.084
For me...

00:14:37.084 --> 00:14:39.420
you have always had
an irresistible fascination.

00:14:39.420 --> 00:14:40.630
Gwendolen--

00:14:40.630 --> 00:14:42.548
Even before I met you...

00:14:42.548 --> 00:14:44.634
I was far from
indifferent to you.

00:14:48.179 --> 00:14:51.682
We live, as I hope you know,
Mr. Worthing...

00:14:51.682 --> 00:14:55.978
in an age of ideals,
and my ideal has always been...

00:14:55.978 --> 00:14:59.190
to love someone
of the name of Ernest.

00:15:00.983 --> 00:15:02.527
There's something
in that name...

00:15:02.527 --> 00:15:05.112
that inspires
absolute confidence.

00:15:05.112 --> 00:15:07.281
The moment Algy
first mentioned to me...

00:15:07.281 --> 00:15:09.492
that he had a friend
called Ernest...

00:15:09.492 --> 00:15:13.663
I knew I was destined
to love you.

00:15:13.663 --> 00:15:17.083
-You really love me, Gwendolen?
-Passionately.

00:15:17.083 --> 00:15:20.128
Darling, you don't know
how happy you've made me.

00:15:20.128 --> 00:15:21.587
My own Ernest.

00:15:23.381 --> 00:15:25.466
You don't mean
to say though, dear...

00:15:25.466 --> 00:15:27.969
you couldn't love me
if my name wasn't Ernest.

00:15:27.969 --> 00:15:30.138
But your name is Ernest.

00:15:30.138 --> 00:15:31.889
Yes, I know it is...

00:15:31.889 --> 00:15:34.851
but supposing
it was something else?

00:15:34.851 --> 00:15:40.440
Ah. Well, that is clearly
a metaphysical speculation...

00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:44.902
and like most
metaphysical speculations...

00:15:44.902 --> 00:15:47.572
has very little
reference at all...

00:15:47.572 --> 00:15:51.075
to the actual facts
of real life as we know them.

00:15:52.827 --> 00:15:55.204
Personally, darling,
to speak quite candidly...

00:15:55.204 --> 00:15:57.623
I don't much care about
the name of Ernest.

00:15:57.623 --> 00:15:59.667
I don't think
it suits me at all.

00:15:59.667 --> 00:16:02.420
It suits you perfectly.
It is a divine name.

00:16:02.420 --> 00:16:04.755
It has a music of its own.

00:16:04.755 --> 00:16:08.176
It produces vibrations.

00:16:10.094 --> 00:16:11.471
Well, really, Gwendolen...

00:16:11.471 --> 00:16:15.016
I must say I think there are
lots of other much nicer names.

00:16:15.016 --> 00:16:16.267
I think...

00:16:17.852 --> 00:16:20.897
Jack, for instance,
a charming name.

00:16:20.897 --> 00:16:22.231
Jack?

00:16:22.231 --> 00:16:24.400
I've known several Jacks,
and they all...

00:16:24.400 --> 00:16:26.736
without exception,
were more than usually plain.

00:16:26.736 --> 00:16:27.862
Mm.

00:16:27.862 --> 00:16:31.407
The only really
safe name is Ernest.

00:16:31.407 --> 00:16:34.285
Gwendolen, we must
get married at once.

00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:38.456
Married, Mr. Worthing?

00:16:38.456 --> 00:16:40.083
Well, surely.

00:16:40.083 --> 00:16:44.212
You know that I love you,
and you led me to believe...

00:16:44.212 --> 00:16:48.341
Miss Fairfax, that you were not
absolutely indifferent to me.

00:16:48.341 --> 00:16:49.967
I adore you.

00:16:49.967 --> 00:16:51.928
But you haven't
proposed to me yet.

00:16:51.928 --> 00:16:54.138
Nothing's been said
at all about marriage.

00:16:54.138 --> 00:16:57.183
The subject has not even
been touched on.

00:17:06.025 --> 00:17:07.402
Gwendolen.

00:17:07.402 --> 00:17:10.488
Yes, Mr. Worthing,
what have you to say to me?

00:17:10.488 --> 00:17:12.907
You know what
I have to say to you.

00:17:12.907 --> 00:17:15.576
Yes, but you don't say it.

00:17:19.372 --> 00:17:22.959
Gwendolen, will you marry me?

00:17:24.794 --> 00:17:26.671
Mr. Worthing!

00:17:26.671 --> 00:17:29.006
Rise, sir, from this
semi-recumbent posture.

00:17:29.006 --> 00:17:30.717
It is most indecorous.

00:17:30.717 --> 00:17:33.177
Mama! I must beg you to retire.

00:17:33.177 --> 00:17:34.971
Mr. Worthing has not
quite finished yet.

00:17:34.971 --> 00:17:36.764
Finished what, may I ask?

00:17:36.764 --> 00:17:40.059
I am engaged to be married
to Mr. Worthing, Mama.

00:17:40.059 --> 00:17:42.562
Pardon me, Gwendolen.
You are not engaged to anyone.

00:17:42.562 --> 00:17:44.355
When you do become
engaged to someone...

00:17:44.355 --> 00:17:47.442
I or your father, should
his health permit him...

00:17:47.442 --> 00:17:50.528
will inform you of the fact.

00:17:50.528 --> 00:17:53.531
You will wait for me
below in the carriage.

00:17:53.531 --> 00:17:56.284
-Mama--
-In the carriage, Gwendolen.

00:18:07.211 --> 00:18:10.048
Gwendolen! The carriage!

00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:20.016
I feel bound to tell you,
Mr. Worthing...

00:18:20.016 --> 00:18:23.478
you are not down on my list
of eligible young men.

00:18:23.478 --> 00:18:25.313
However, I'm quite ready...

00:18:25.313 --> 00:18:27.398
to enter your name
as a possible candidate.

00:18:27.398 --> 00:18:30.318
Perhaps you would attend
a meeting at my house...

00:18:30.318 --> 00:18:32.612
at eleven o'clock
tomorrow morning.

00:18:32.612 --> 00:18:36.074
I shall have a few questions
to put to you.

00:18:37.575 --> 00:18:39.535
Algernon?

00:18:39.577 --> 00:18:44.123
So, did you tell
Gwendolen the truth...

00:18:44.123 --> 00:18:47.418
about being Ernest in town
and Jack in the country?

00:18:47.418 --> 00:18:48.670
My dear fellow...

00:18:48.670 --> 00:18:50.380
the truth isn't quite
the sort of thing...

00:18:50.380 --> 00:18:52.423
one tells to
a nice, sweet, refined girl.

00:18:52.423 --> 00:18:53.841
What extraordinary
ideas you have...

00:18:53.841 --> 00:18:55.301
about the way to behave
to a woman.

00:18:55.301 --> 00:18:56.803
The only way
to behave to a woman...

00:18:56.803 --> 00:18:58.262
is to make love to her
if she's pretty...

00:18:58.262 --> 00:18:59.847
and to someone else
if she is plain.

00:18:59.847 --> 00:19:01.099
That is nonsense.

00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:02.809
You never talk anything
but nonsense.

00:19:02.809 --> 00:19:04.602
Well, nobody ever does.

00:19:04.602 --> 00:19:07.730
Oh, my dear fellow,
you forgot to pay the bill.

00:19:07.730 --> 00:19:11.234
Not at all, I make it a point
never to pay at the Savoy.

00:19:13.486 --> 00:19:15.738
Why on earth not?
You have heaps of money.

00:19:15.738 --> 00:19:17.949
Yes, but Ernest hasn't...

00:19:17.949 --> 00:19:20.159
and he's got quite
a reputation to keep up.

00:19:28.918 --> 00:19:31.504
Cecily?

00:19:31.504 --> 00:19:35.341
More intellectual pleasures
await you, my child.

00:19:38.553 --> 00:19:41.639
You should put away
your diary, Cecily.

00:19:41.639 --> 00:19:44.851
I really don't see why
you should keep a diary at all.

00:19:44.851 --> 00:19:46.394
I keep a diary
in order to enter...

00:19:46.394 --> 00:19:48.646
the wonderful
secrets of my life.

00:19:48.646 --> 00:19:49.981
If I didn't write them down...

00:19:49.981 --> 00:19:52.358
I should probably
forget all about them.

00:19:52.358 --> 00:19:53.985
Memory, my dear Cecily...

00:19:53.985 --> 00:19:56.070
is the diary that we
all carry about with us.

00:19:56.070 --> 00:19:57.947
I believe memory
is responsible...

00:19:57.947 --> 00:19:59.907
for nearly all these
three-volume novels...

00:19:59.907 --> 00:20:01.534
people write nowadays.

00:20:01.534 --> 00:20:05.079
Do not speak slightingly of
the three-volume novel, Cecily.

00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:07.707
I wrote one myself
in earlier days.

00:20:07.707 --> 00:20:10.001
Did you really, Miss Prism?

00:20:10.001 --> 00:20:12.045
I hope it did not end happily.

00:20:12.045 --> 00:20:15.173
The good ended happily
and the bad unhappily.

00:20:15.173 --> 00:20:17.383
That is what fiction means.

00:20:18.635 --> 00:20:19.844
Do your work, child.

00:20:19.844 --> 00:20:22.180
These speculations
are profitless.

00:20:23.598 --> 00:20:26.059
But I see
dear Dr. Chasuble...

00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:28.227
coming through the garden.

00:20:28.227 --> 00:20:30.021
Oh, Dr. Chasuble!

00:20:33.149 --> 00:20:35.193
This is indeed a pleasure.

00:20:35.193 --> 00:20:37.028
And how are we today?

00:20:37.028 --> 00:20:39.697
Miss Prism, you are,
I trust, well.

00:20:39.697 --> 00:20:41.491
Miss Prism has just
been complaining...

00:20:41.491 --> 00:20:43.493
of a slight headache.
I think it would do her...

00:20:43.493 --> 00:20:45.328
so much good to have
a short stroll with you...

00:20:45.328 --> 00:20:46.871
in the park, Dr. Chasuble.

00:20:46.871 --> 00:20:50.166
Cecily! I have not mentioned
anything about a headache.

00:20:50.166 --> 00:20:52.418
No, dear Miss Prism.
I know that...

00:20:52.418 --> 00:20:54.545
but I felt instinctively
that you had a headache.

00:20:54.545 --> 00:20:56.130
Indeed, I was
thinking about that...

00:20:56.130 --> 00:20:58.633
and not my German lesson
when the rector came along.

00:20:58.633 --> 00:21:00.635
I hope, Cecily,
you are not inattentive.

00:21:00.635 --> 00:21:04.013
-I am afraid I am.
-That's strange.

00:21:04.013 --> 00:21:06.724
Were I fortunate enough
to be Miss Prism's pupil...

00:21:06.724 --> 00:21:09.185
I would hang upon her lips.

00:21:13.690 --> 00:21:18.486
I spoke metaphorically.

00:21:20.280 --> 00:21:24.325
My metaphor
was drawn from...bees.

00:21:28.204 --> 00:21:30.456
Ahem. I shall, um...

00:21:30.456 --> 00:21:34.586
see you both, no doubt,
at Evensong.

00:22:00.778 --> 00:22:02.530
Good luck, sir.

00:22:14.751 --> 00:22:16.294
Ernest!

00:22:22.050 --> 00:22:24.761
-This way, sir.
-Shall I, uh--

00:22:50.411 --> 00:22:52.747
You can take a seat,
Mr. Worthing.

00:22:55.542 --> 00:22:58.127
Thank you, Lady Bracknell.
I prefer standing.

00:23:08.012 --> 00:23:09.556
Do you smoke?

00:23:13.893 --> 00:23:16.938
Well, yes,
I must admit I smoke.

00:23:16.938 --> 00:23:18.731
I'm glad to hear it.

00:23:18.731 --> 00:23:21.568
A man should always have
an occupation of some kind.

00:23:21.568 --> 00:23:24.028
There are far too many
idle men in London as it is.

00:23:25.738 --> 00:23:29.450
-How old are you?
-Thirty-five.

00:23:29.450 --> 00:23:31.703
A very good age
to be married at.

00:23:33.204 --> 00:23:34.622
I've always been of opinion...

00:23:34.622 --> 00:23:36.583
that a man who desires
to get married...

00:23:36.583 --> 00:23:39.419
should know either
everything or nothing.

00:23:39.419 --> 00:23:41.337
Which do you know?

00:23:43.923 --> 00:23:45.967
I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.

00:23:45.967 --> 00:23:47.802
I'm pleased to hear it.

00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:51.472
I do not approve
of anything that tampers...

00:23:51.472 --> 00:23:53.474
with natural ignorance.

00:23:53.474 --> 00:23:57.187
Ignorance is like
a delicate, exotic fruit.

00:23:57.187 --> 00:24:00.148
Touch it,
and the bloom is gone.

00:24:00.148 --> 00:24:02.275
The whole theory
of modern education...

00:24:02.275 --> 00:24:03.943
is radically unsound.

00:24:03.943 --> 00:24:05.570
Fortunately, in England,
at any rate...

00:24:05.570 --> 00:24:07.780
education produces
no effect whatsoever.

00:24:07.780 --> 00:24:09.741
If it did, it would prove
a serious danger...

00:24:09.741 --> 00:24:11.534
to the upper classes
and probably lead...

00:24:11.534 --> 00:24:14.662
to acts of violence
in Grosvenor Square.

00:24:14.662 --> 00:24:18.124
-What is your income?
-Between 7 and 8,000 a year.

00:24:18.124 --> 00:24:22.212
-In land or in investments?
-In investments, chiefly.

00:24:22.212 --> 00:24:24.589
Oh, that is satisfactory.

00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:28.593
I have a country house
with some land...

00:24:28.593 --> 00:24:30.303
of course, attached to it.

00:24:30.303 --> 00:24:31.888
About 1,500 acres, I believe.

00:24:31.888 --> 00:24:33.807
You have a town house, I hope.

00:24:33.807 --> 00:24:36.226
A girl with a simple, unspoiled
nature like Gwendolen...

00:24:36.226 --> 00:24:39.103
could hardly be expected
to reside in the country.

00:24:39.103 --> 00:24:41.481
Well, of course I also own
a house in Belgrave Square.

00:24:41.481 --> 00:24:43.233
-Number?
-A hundred and forty-nine.

00:24:44.442 --> 00:24:49.697
The unfashionable side.
I thought there was something.

00:24:54.994 --> 00:24:57.705
However, that could
easily be altered.

00:24:57.705 --> 00:25:00.500
Do you mean the fashion
or the side?

00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:02.585
Well, both, if necessary,
I presume.

00:25:06.005 --> 00:25:07.882
Are your parents living?

00:25:09.634 --> 00:25:11.386
I have lost both my parents.

00:25:11.386 --> 00:25:14.097
To lose one parent,
Mr. Worthing...

00:25:14.097 --> 00:25:16.724
may be regarded
as a misfortune.

00:25:16.724 --> 00:25:20.145
To lose both
looks like carelessness.

00:25:21.146 --> 00:25:22.772
Who was your father?

00:25:22.772 --> 00:25:25.150
He was evidently
a man of some wealth.

00:25:25.150 --> 00:25:27.110
I'm afraid
I really don't know.

00:25:29.529 --> 00:25:33.616
The fact is, Lady Bracknell,
I said I had lost my parents.

00:25:33.616 --> 00:25:35.076
It would be nearer the truth...

00:25:35.076 --> 00:25:37.120
to say my parents
seem to have lost me.

00:25:38.955 --> 00:25:41.249
I actually don't know
who I am by birth.

00:25:42.667 --> 00:25:44.919
I was--

00:25:44.919 --> 00:25:47.255
Well, I was found.

00:25:47.255 --> 00:25:48.882
Found?

00:25:48.882 --> 00:25:51.176
The late Mr. Thomas Cardew,
an old gentleman...

00:25:51.176 --> 00:25:53.219
of a very charitable
and kindly disposition...

00:25:53.219 --> 00:25:55.597
found me and gave me
the name of Worthing...

00:25:55.597 --> 00:25:57.515
because he happened to have
a first-class ticket...

00:25:57.515 --> 00:25:59.267
for Worthing
in his pocket at the time.

00:25:59.267 --> 00:26:04.647
Worthing is a place in Sussex.
It is a seaside resort.

00:26:04.647 --> 00:26:06.733
And where did this
charitable gentlemen...

00:26:06.733 --> 00:26:08.860
with a first-class ticket
for the seaside resort...

00:26:08.860 --> 00:26:10.236
find you?

00:26:10.236 --> 00:26:12.947
In a handbag.

00:26:16.534 --> 00:26:20.038
-A handbag?
-Yes, Lady Bracknell.

00:26:20.038 --> 00:26:22.749
I was in a handbag--

00:26:22.749 --> 00:26:30.215
a somewhat large, um,
black leather handbag...

00:26:30.215 --> 00:26:32.384
with handles to it.

00:26:33.426 --> 00:26:36.971
An ordinary handbag, in fact.

00:26:36.971 --> 00:26:42.727
In what locality did this
Mr. James or Thomas Cardew...

00:26:42.727 --> 00:26:45.021
come across this
ordinary handbag?

00:26:45.021 --> 00:26:47.357
In the cloakroom
at Victoria Station.

00:26:47.357 --> 00:26:49.442
It was given him
in mistake for his own.

00:26:49.442 --> 00:26:52.070
The cloakroom
at Victoria Station?

00:26:52.070 --> 00:26:53.947
Yes. The Brighton line.

00:26:53.947 --> 00:26:56.533
The line is immaterial.

00:26:59.202 --> 00:27:01.788
Mr. Worthing, I confess
I am somewhat bewildered...

00:27:01.788 --> 00:27:03.915
by what you have just told me.

00:27:03.915 --> 00:27:07.043
To be born or at any rate
bred in a handbag...

00:27:07.043 --> 00:27:08.962
whether it has handles or not...

00:27:08.962 --> 00:27:11.047
seems to me
to display a contempt...

00:27:11.047 --> 00:27:13.341
for the ordinary decencies
of family life...

00:27:13.341 --> 00:27:15.593
which remind one
of the worst excesses...

00:27:15.593 --> 00:27:17.262
of the French Revolution.

00:27:17.262 --> 00:27:18.763
And I presume you know...

00:27:18.763 --> 00:27:21.224
what that unfortunate
movement led to.

00:27:21.224 --> 00:27:23.059
May I ask you then...

00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:24.936
what you would
advise me to do?

00:27:24.936 --> 00:27:27.063
I need hardly say
I would do anything...

00:27:27.063 --> 00:27:28.690
in the world to ensure
Gwendolen's happiness.

00:27:28.690 --> 00:27:31.192
I would strongly advise you,
Mr. Worthing...

00:27:31.192 --> 00:27:33.695
to try and acquire some
relations as soon as possible...

00:27:33.695 --> 00:27:37.198
and to make a definite effort
to produce at any rate...

00:27:37.198 --> 00:27:40.785
one parent of either sex
before the season is quite over.

00:27:40.785 --> 00:27:42.829
I don't see how I could
possibly manage to do that.

00:27:42.829 --> 00:27:44.748
I can produce the handbag
at any moment.

00:27:44.748 --> 00:27:46.583
It's in my storeroom at home.

00:27:46.583 --> 00:27:48.960
I really think that should
satisfy you, Lady Bracknell.

00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:50.462
Me, sir?

00:27:50.462 --> 00:27:53.882
What has it to do with me?

00:27:53.882 --> 00:27:56.426
You can hardly imagine
that I and Lord Bracknell...

00:27:56.426 --> 00:27:59.262
would dream of allowing
our only daughter--

00:27:59.262 --> 00:28:01.681
a girl brought up
with the utmost care--

00:28:01.681 --> 00:28:03.516
to marry into a cloakroom...

00:28:03.516 --> 00:28:07.103
and form an alliance
with a parcel.

00:28:11.358 --> 00:28:13.234
Good morning, Mr. Worthing.

00:28:15.654 --> 00:28:17.113
Good morning.

00:28:22.285 --> 00:28:24.913
You don't think there's any
chance of Gwendolen becoming...

00:28:24.913 --> 00:28:27.624
like her mother in about
150 years, do you, Algy?

00:28:27.624 --> 00:28:29.459
My dear fellow,
all women become...

00:28:29.459 --> 00:28:31.503
like their mothers.
That is their tragedy.

00:28:31.503 --> 00:28:33.672
No man does, and that's his.

00:28:33.672 --> 00:28:35.674
Is that clever?

00:28:35.674 --> 00:28:37.842
It's perfectly
phrased and about as true...

00:28:37.842 --> 00:28:40.553
as any observation in
civilized life should be.

00:28:40.553 --> 00:28:42.097
Ernest.

00:28:42.097 --> 00:28:44.683
-Gwendolen!
-Ernest, my dear Ernest.

00:28:44.683 --> 00:28:46.059
Algy, please,
I have something...

00:28:46.059 --> 00:28:48.269
very particular
to say to Mr. Worthing.

00:28:49.688 --> 00:28:51.064
My own darling.

00:28:51.064 --> 00:28:53.817
Ernest, the story
of your romantic origin...

00:28:53.817 --> 00:28:56.987
as related to me by Mama with
unpleasing comments...

00:28:56.987 --> 00:29:00.073
has naturally stirred
the deeper fibres of my nature.

00:29:00.073 --> 00:29:02.200
I followed you here
to reassure you...

00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:04.536
that there is nothing
that she can possibly do...

00:29:04.536 --> 00:29:07.080
can alter my eternal
devotion to you.

00:29:07.080 --> 00:29:08.707
Dear Gwendolen.

00:29:08.707 --> 00:29:12.002
Your town address
at The Albany I have.

00:29:12.002 --> 00:29:15.338
What is your address
in the country?

00:29:15.338 --> 00:29:22.262
The Manor, Woolton,
Hertfordshire.

00:29:22.262 --> 00:29:24.347
I will communicate
with you daily.

00:29:24.347 --> 00:29:25.640
My own one.

00:29:30.103 --> 00:29:32.147
Yes. I must confess.
I do smoke.

00:29:32.147 --> 00:29:34.774
I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.

00:29:39.237 --> 00:29:41.406
I can produce the handbag
at a moment's notice.

00:29:41.406 --> 00:29:43.325
Shh! Shh.

00:29:43.325 --> 00:29:44.909
Before you can be found...

00:29:44.909 --> 00:29:46.620
in a handbag
at a railway station...

00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:48.371
someone must have lost you
in a handbag...

00:29:48.371 --> 00:29:50.040
at a railway station.
Do you see?

00:29:55.837 --> 00:29:57.964
In the first place,
what with Lady Bracknell...

00:29:57.964 --> 00:30:00.133
sniffing about,
dear, dissolute Ernest...

00:30:00.133 --> 00:30:02.260
is a risk
I can no longer afford.

00:30:02.260 --> 00:30:04.721
And secondly, Cecily
is becoming a little too much...

00:30:04.721 --> 00:30:06.765
interested in him.
It's rather a bore.

00:30:06.765 --> 00:30:08.600
I'd rather like to meet Cecily.

00:30:08.600 --> 00:30:11.645
Well. I shall take
very good care you never do.

00:30:11.645 --> 00:30:15.482
She is excessively pretty
and only just eighteen.

00:30:15.482 --> 00:30:21.446
No, I'll say he died
in Paris of apoplexy.

00:30:21.446 --> 00:30:23.198
But it's hereditary,
my dear fellow.

00:30:23.198 --> 00:30:25.158
It's the sort of thing
that runs in families.

00:30:25.158 --> 00:30:26.701
You had much better say
it was a severe chill.

00:30:26.701 --> 00:30:28.453
Very well. then.

00:30:28.453 --> 00:30:31.289
Poor brother Ernest
is carried off suddenly...

00:30:31.289 --> 00:30:35.710
in Paris by a severe chill.

00:30:35.710 --> 00:30:37.629
That gets rid of him.

00:30:40.173 --> 00:30:42.133
Have you told Gwendolen
that you have...

00:30:42.133 --> 00:30:45.428
an excessively pretty ward
who's only just eighteen?

00:30:45.428 --> 00:30:48.056
No. One doesn't blurt
these things out to people.

00:30:48.056 --> 00:30:50.558
Cecily and Gwendolen
are perfectly certain...

00:30:50.558 --> 00:30:52.561
to become extremely
great friends.

00:30:52.561 --> 00:30:55.230
I bet you anything half
an hour after they've met...

00:30:55.230 --> 00:30:56.815
they will be calling
each other sister.

00:30:56.815 --> 00:30:59.442
Women only
do that when they have...

00:30:59.442 --> 00:31:02.862
called each other a lot
of other things first.

00:31:34.811 --> 00:31:36.813
Don't let me
disturb you.

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:42.068
I hope tomorrow
will be a fine day, Lane.

00:31:42.068 --> 00:31:44.154
It never is, sir.

00:31:45.864 --> 00:31:48.700
You are a perfect pessimist.

00:31:48.700 --> 00:31:51.786
I do my best to give
satisfaction, sir.

00:31:51.786 --> 00:31:53.163
Thank you.

00:31:59.836 --> 00:32:02.214
You can put out
my dress clothes...

00:32:02.214 --> 00:32:04.049
my smoking jacket...

00:32:04.049 --> 00:32:07.469
and even bring on
the curling tongs.

00:32:07.469 --> 00:32:09.054
Yes, sir.

00:32:09.054 --> 00:32:10.555
Tomorrow, Lane...

00:32:12.641 --> 00:32:14.518
I'm going Bunburying.

00:32:15.560 --> 00:32:16.895
Yes. sir.

00:32:25.320 --> 00:32:27.405
That must be it over there.

00:32:32.911 --> 00:32:36.122
Bring it down there,
Mr. Smithers.

00:32:58.228 --> 00:33:00.272
Ask Mr. Ernest Worthing
to come here.

00:33:00.272 --> 00:33:01.690
Yes. Miss.

00:33:13.785 --> 00:33:17.122
You are my little cousin
Cecily, I'm sure.

00:33:17.122 --> 00:33:19.416
You are under
some strange mistake.

00:33:19.416 --> 00:33:22.127
I'm not little.
In fact, I believe...

00:33:22.127 --> 00:33:23.962
I'm more than usually
tall for my age.

00:33:23.962 --> 00:33:26.339
But I am your cousin Cecily.

00:33:26.339 --> 00:33:30.469
And you--you,
I see from your card...

00:33:30.469 --> 00:33:32.846
are Uncle Jack's brother,
my cousin Ernest.

00:33:32.846 --> 00:33:35.474
My wicked cousin Ernest.

00:33:35.474 --> 00:33:37.225
I'm not really wicked
at all, Cousin Cecily.

00:33:37.225 --> 00:33:39.019
You mustn't think
that I'm wicked.

00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:40.770
Well, if you are not,
then you've certainly...

00:33:40.770 --> 00:33:43.440
been deceiving us all
in a very inexcusable manner.

00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:45.400
Well, I have been
rather reckless.

00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:46.693
I'm glad to hear it.

00:33:46.693 --> 00:33:48.487
In fact, now that
you mention the subject...

00:33:48.487 --> 00:33:51.615
I have been very bad
in my own small way.

00:33:51.615 --> 00:33:53.825
Well, I don't think you should
be so proud of that...

00:33:53.825 --> 00:33:55.786
though I am sure
it must've been very pleasant.

00:33:55.786 --> 00:33:57.454
It's much pleasanter
being here with you.

00:33:57.454 --> 00:33:59.498
I can't understand
how you're here at all.

00:33:59.498 --> 00:34:01.583
Uncle Jack won't be back
till Monday afternoon.

00:34:01.583 --> 00:34:03.502
Oh, that is a great
disappointment.

00:34:03.502 --> 00:34:04.961
I'm obliged to go out...

00:34:04.961 --> 00:34:06.463
by the first train
on Monday morning.

00:34:06.463 --> 00:34:09.466
I have a business appointment
that I'm anxious to miss.

00:34:09.466 --> 00:34:12.677
That's all very well,
but still...

00:34:12.677 --> 00:34:15.430
I think you had better wait
until Uncle Jack arrives.

00:34:15.430 --> 00:34:18.058
I know he wants to speak to you
about your emigrating.

00:34:18.058 --> 00:34:19.309
About my what?

00:34:19.309 --> 00:34:21.061
Uncle Jack is sending you
to Australia.

00:34:21.061 --> 00:34:23.647
Australia? I'd sooner die.

00:34:23.647 --> 00:34:25.524
He said at dinner
on Wednesday night...

00:34:25.524 --> 00:34:27.609
that you would have to choose
between this world...

00:34:27.609 --> 00:34:29.402
the next world, and Australia.

00:34:29.402 --> 00:34:30.779
Oh, well.

00:34:30.779 --> 00:34:33.031
The accounts I have
received of Australia...

00:34:33.031 --> 00:34:34.908
and the next world
are not particularly...

00:34:34.908 --> 00:34:36.910
encouraging, Cousin Cecily.

00:34:36.910 --> 00:34:39.121
This world
is good enough for me.

00:34:39.121 --> 00:34:40.956
Yes, but are you
good enough for it?

00:34:40.956 --> 00:34:42.499
No, I'm afraid not.

00:34:42.499 --> 00:34:44.876
That is why I want you
to reform me.

00:34:44.876 --> 00:34:46.628
You might make that
your mission...

00:34:46.628 --> 00:34:48.004
if you don't mind,
Cousin Cecily.

00:34:48.004 --> 00:34:50.424
I'm afraid I've no time
this afternoon.

00:34:50.424 --> 00:34:52.384
Well, would you mind me...

00:34:52.384 --> 00:34:54.636
reforming myself
this afternoon?

00:34:57.889 --> 00:35:02.227
It is rather quixotic of you,
but I think you should try.

00:35:02.227 --> 00:35:04.354
I will.

00:35:05.897 --> 00:35:09.317
-I feel better already.
-You're looking a little worse.

00:35:09.317 --> 00:35:11.236
Well,
that's because I'm hungry.

00:35:18.618 --> 00:35:20.412
-Mr. Worthing!
-Mr. Worthing!

00:35:22.080 --> 00:35:24.124
This is indeed a surprise.

00:35:24.124 --> 00:35:26.585
We did not look for you
till Monday afternoon.

00:35:26.585 --> 00:35:29.379
I have returned
sooner than I expected.

00:35:29.379 --> 00:35:31.965
Dear Mr. Worthing,
I trust this garb of woe...

00:35:31.965 --> 00:35:34.634
does not betoken
some terrible calamity.

00:35:34.634 --> 00:35:36.720
My brother.

00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:39.264
More shameful debts
and extravagance.

00:35:39.264 --> 00:35:42.142
Still leading
a life of pleasure.

00:35:42.142 --> 00:35:44.102
Dead.

00:35:47.856 --> 00:35:51.359
Your brother Ernest is dead?

00:35:51.359 --> 00:35:52.903
Quite dead.

00:35:52.903 --> 00:35:57.115
What a lesson for him!
I trust he will profit by it.

00:35:57.115 --> 00:36:00.327
He had many faults,
but it is a sad, sad blow.

00:36:00.327 --> 00:36:02.120
Yes. indeed. sad.

00:36:02.120 --> 00:36:08.919
Um, were you with him
at the end?

00:36:08.919 --> 00:36:13.131
No. He died abroad.
In Paris, in fact.

00:36:13.131 --> 00:36:15.884
I had a telegram last night...

00:36:15.884 --> 00:36:18.637
from the manager
of the Grand Hotel.

00:36:18.637 --> 00:36:21.932
Is the cause of death
mentioned?

00:36:21.932 --> 00:36:24.059
A severe chill, it seems.

00:36:24.059 --> 00:36:27.312
As a man sows,
so shall he reap.

00:36:27.312 --> 00:36:29.064
Oh, charity,
Miss Prism, charity.

00:36:29.064 --> 00:36:32.943
I myself am peculiarly
susceptible to draft.

00:36:32.943 --> 00:36:38.031
Ah...ah...Ah-choo!

00:36:38.031 --> 00:36:39.908
Bless you.

00:36:39.908 --> 00:36:44.871
Uncle Jack, I'm so pleased
to see you back.

00:36:44.871 --> 00:36:48.291
What is the matter, Uncle Jack?
Do look happy.

00:36:48.291 --> 00:36:49.960
You look as if
you had toothache...

00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:51.461
and I have such
a surprise for you.

00:36:51.461 --> 00:36:53.505
Who do you think
is in the rose garden?

00:36:55.048 --> 00:36:56.216
Your brother.

00:36:56.216 --> 00:36:59.344
-Who?
-Your brother Ernest.

00:36:59.344 --> 00:37:01.304
He arrived about
half an hour ago.

00:37:01.304 --> 00:37:03.432
Nonsense.
I haven't got a brother.

00:37:03.432 --> 00:37:04.850
-I mean...
-Well, he's...

00:37:04.850 --> 00:37:08.395
Come, he'll be so pleased
to see you've returned so soon.

00:37:10.689 --> 00:37:11.857
I--

00:37:14.568 --> 00:37:16.611
These are joyful tidings.

00:37:33.045 --> 00:37:34.713
Good heavens.

00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.403
Brother John,
I've come down from town...

00:37:58.403 --> 00:38:00.238
to tell you
that I'm very sorry...

00:38:00.238 --> 00:38:01.990
for all the trouble
I have given you...

00:38:01.990 --> 00:38:03.533
and that I fully intend...

00:38:03.533 --> 00:38:05.619
to lead a better life
in the future.

00:38:15.629 --> 00:38:17.339
Well, what can I say?

00:38:17.339 --> 00:38:20.926
The old Ernest is dead.
Long live the new Ernest.

00:38:20.926 --> 00:38:23.095
I thought you'd like
my little joke.

00:38:23.095 --> 00:38:24.471
Your little joke?

00:38:24.471 --> 00:38:26.473
Knowing me as you do,
brother John...

00:38:26.473 --> 00:38:27.933
I'm surprised
you took it so seriously.

00:38:27.933 --> 00:38:30.435
At any rate,
I stand before you now...

00:38:30.435 --> 00:38:33.939
an entirely new man,
risen, as it were...

00:38:33.939 --> 00:38:35.983
like a phoenix from the ashes.

00:38:37.567 --> 00:38:40.821
Uncle Jack,
you're not going to refuse...

00:38:40.821 --> 00:38:42.072
your own brother's hand.

00:38:42.072 --> 00:38:43.699
Nothing would induce me
to take his hand.

00:38:43.699 --> 00:38:45.117
I think his behaviour
utterly disgraceful.

00:38:45.117 --> 00:38:47.327
He knows perfectly well why!

00:38:47.327 --> 00:38:49.746
Do shake his hand, Uncle Jack.

00:38:49.746 --> 00:38:54.418
After all, it could be worse.
I could be dead in Paris.

00:38:54.418 --> 00:38:56.003
You could, indeed.

00:38:56.003 --> 00:38:57.796
Of a severe chill.

00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.473
Sorry about that, Jack.
Shake. Go on.

00:39:13.270 --> 00:39:14.938
Excuse me, sir.

00:39:14.938 --> 00:39:17.524
We're putting
Mr. Ernest's things...

00:39:17.524 --> 00:39:19.276
in the blue room
on the second floor.

00:39:19.276 --> 00:39:21.570
Very nice to see you, Doctor.
Do tell me, when is confession?

00:39:21.570 --> 00:39:22.738
What?

00:39:22.738 --> 00:39:24.489
Mr. Ernest's luggage, sir.

00:39:24.489 --> 00:39:26.533
We're taking it up
to the blue room.

00:39:26.533 --> 00:39:28.827
-His luggage?
-Yes, sir.

00:39:28.827 --> 00:39:30.746
Two portmanteaus,
two dressing cases...

00:39:30.746 --> 00:39:33.457
two hat boxes,
and a large luncheon basket.

00:39:33.457 --> 00:39:35.626
I fear I can only
stay a week this time.

00:39:37.669 --> 00:39:39.254
Heh heh.

00:39:39.254 --> 00:39:42.257
-You scoundrel, Algy.
-Mm?

00:39:42.257 --> 00:39:44.801
What have you
to say for yourself?

00:39:44.801 --> 00:39:46.553
What I have to say,
Uncle Jack...

00:39:46.553 --> 00:39:49.306
is that little Cecily
is a darling.

00:39:49.306 --> 00:39:53.435
You are not to talk
of Miss Cardew like that!

00:39:53.435 --> 00:39:55.812
I don't like it.

00:39:55.812 --> 00:39:57.397
Your vanity is ridiculous...

00:39:57.397 --> 00:39:59.483
your conduct an outrage,
and your presence...

00:39:59.483 --> 00:40:01.360
in my house utterly absurd!

00:40:02.527 --> 00:40:05.072
However, you have got
to catch the four-five train.

00:40:05.072 --> 00:40:06.782
I hope you have a pleasant
journey back to town.

00:40:06.782 --> 00:40:09.368
This Bunburying,
as you call it...

00:40:09.368 --> 00:40:12.037
has not been
a great success for you.

00:40:28.887 --> 00:40:30.639
It's pleasant. is it not...

00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:33.350
to see so perfect
a reconciliation.

00:40:35.269 --> 00:40:39.356
I think
it's been a great success.

00:41:42.502 --> 00:41:44.046
Dinner is served.

00:41:44.046 --> 00:41:45.631
Cecily.

00:41:45.631 --> 00:41:48.592
Might I have a buttonhole first?

00:41:48.592 --> 00:41:51.428
I never have an appetite
unless I have a buttonhole.

00:41:51.428 --> 00:41:53.096
Mr. Worthing.

00:41:57.226 --> 00:41:59.353
-Marigold?
-No.

00:41:59.353 --> 00:42:01.313
I'd sooner have
a pink rose.

00:42:01.313 --> 00:42:02.523
Why?

00:42:02.523 --> 00:42:05.817
Because you are like
a pink rose, Cousin Cecily.

00:42:05.817 --> 00:42:07.236
I don't think
it could be right...

00:42:07.236 --> 00:42:08.529
for you to talk to me
like that.

00:42:08.529 --> 00:42:10.989
Miss Prism never says
such things to me.

00:42:10.989 --> 00:42:13.700
Then Miss Prism
is a short-sighted old lady.

00:42:17.579 --> 00:42:19.623
You are the prettiest girl
I ever saw.

00:42:22.125 --> 00:42:25.212
You see, Uncle Jack,
there is some good in everyone.

00:42:25.212 --> 00:42:28.006
Ernest has just been telling me
about his poor invalid friend...

00:42:28.006 --> 00:42:29.591
whom he goes to visit so often.

00:42:29.591 --> 00:42:32.344
Oh, he has been talking about
poor Mr. Bunbury, has he?

00:42:32.344 --> 00:42:33.846
And surely there
must be much good...

00:42:33.846 --> 00:42:35.389
in one who is kind
to an invalid...

00:42:35.389 --> 00:42:37.015
and leaves the pleasures
of London...

00:42:37.015 --> 00:42:39.726
to sit by a bed of pain.

00:43:20.184 --> 00:43:21.727
Right. It's first class.

00:43:42.080 --> 00:43:44.750
-Good morning, sir.
-Good morning.

00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:05.479
Dear Ernest...

00:44:05.479 --> 00:44:08.565
how desperately
I have missed you.

00:44:08.565 --> 00:44:11.610
It seems an age
since I last saw you...

00:44:11.610 --> 00:44:16.240
and our separation is now
proving an intolerable strain.

00:44:25.332 --> 00:44:28.627
The feelings
you have aroused within me...

00:44:28.627 --> 00:44:32.464
are at once delightful
and exquisitely...

00:44:32.464 --> 00:44:34.174
painful.

00:44:34.174 --> 00:44:38.887
My dearest darling Ernest...

00:44:38.887 --> 00:44:41.974
it is your very name
that inspires me now...

00:44:41.974 --> 00:44:43.851
to take my future
in my hands--

00:44:43.851 --> 00:44:49.314
burnt. as it were.
into my very being.

00:44:49.314 --> 00:44:52.985
And so it is. I have resolved
to flee these prison walls...

00:44:52.985 --> 00:44:56.405
and make my way
directly to your side...

00:44:56.405 --> 00:44:59.324
to my one and only...

00:44:59.324 --> 00:45:01.994
Ernest.

00:45:01.994 --> 00:45:03.537
Ernest.

00:45:08.333 --> 00:45:09.501
Algy.

00:45:16.550 --> 00:45:17.760
Algy.

00:45:20.512 --> 00:45:22.139
Ernest.

00:45:24.475 --> 00:45:26.852
Ah. Good morning,
my dear fellow.

00:45:28.145 --> 00:45:30.522
We have to talk.
You have to leave.

00:45:30.522 --> 00:45:32.191
If I leave, how can we talk?

00:45:32.191 --> 00:45:34.026
We cannot both be called Ernest

00:45:34.026 --> 00:45:35.861
I don't believe we are,
Brother Jack.

00:45:44.870 --> 00:45:49.083
I believe you are praiseworthy.

00:45:49.083 --> 00:45:52.127
He, she, it praises.

00:45:55.881 --> 00:45:58.050
You're snoring?

00:46:04.682 --> 00:46:07.559
I hope, Cecily,
I shall not offend you...

00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:11.814
if I state
quite openly and frankly...

00:46:13.399 --> 00:46:15.734
You seem to me
to be in every way...

00:46:15.734 --> 00:46:21.573
the visible personification
of absolute perfection.

00:46:21.573 --> 00:46:24.243
I think your frankness
does you great credit, Ernest.

00:46:24.243 --> 00:46:27.204
If you will allow me, I will
copy your remarks into my diary.

00:46:27.204 --> 00:46:30.124
Do you keep a diary?
I'd give anything to see it.

00:46:30.124 --> 00:46:33.335
Oh, no. You'd see it as simply
a very young girl's record...

00:46:33.335 --> 00:46:35.087
of her own thoughts
and impressions.

00:46:35.087 --> 00:46:38.465
But, pray, Ernest, I delight
in taking down from dictation.

00:46:38.465 --> 00:46:40.426
You can go on.

00:46:42.386 --> 00:46:45.139
Don't cough, Ernest.
When one is dictating...

00:46:45.139 --> 00:46:47.391
one should speak fluently
and not cough.

00:46:53.856 --> 00:46:56.608
Cecily, ever since
I first looked upon...

00:46:56.608 --> 00:46:58.944
your wondrous
and incomparable beauty...

00:46:58.944 --> 00:47:01.989
I have dared to love you--
wildly...

00:47:03.782 --> 00:47:05.993
wildly...

00:47:05.993 --> 00:47:07.661
-passionately...
-Ahem.

00:47:07.661 --> 00:47:10.622
devotedly, hopelessly.

00:47:10.622 --> 00:47:13.292
I beg your pardon, sir.

00:47:13.292 --> 00:47:16.086
There are two gentlemen
wishing to see you.

00:47:28.599 --> 00:47:30.309
-Mr. Ernest Worthing?
-Yes.

00:47:30.309 --> 00:47:33.562
-Of B.4, The Albany?
-Yes, that is my address.

00:47:33.562 --> 00:47:34.938
I am very sorry. sir...

00:47:34.938 --> 00:47:36.774
but I have a writ
of attachment against you...

00:47:36.774 --> 00:47:39.443
and the suit of the Savoy
Hotel Company Limited...

00:47:39.443 --> 00:47:42.196
for 762 pounds, 14 shillings.

00:47:42.196 --> 00:47:43.739
What perfect nonsense.

00:47:43.739 --> 00:47:45.949
I never dine at the Savoy
at my own expense.

00:47:45.949 --> 00:47:47.826
In the interests
of our clients...

00:47:47.826 --> 00:47:49.745
we have no option
but to take out an order...

00:47:49.745 --> 00:47:51.580
for committal of your person.

00:47:51.580 --> 00:47:55.042
-Committal? Of my person?
-For six months.

00:47:55.042 --> 00:47:57.211
Oh, for six months?
Ha ha!

00:47:57.211 --> 00:47:58.671
No doubt
you'll prefer to pay the bill.

00:47:58.671 --> 00:48:01.382
Pay it? How on earth
am I going to do that?

00:48:01.382 --> 00:48:03.300
No gentleman
ever has any money.

00:48:03.300 --> 00:48:07.513
In my experience,
it is usually relations who pay.

00:48:07.513 --> 00:48:09.807
Oh, all right.
Uh, Brother Jack?

00:48:17.815 --> 00:48:22.486
762 pounds, 14 shillings,
and a tuppence--

00:48:22.486 --> 00:48:24.488
since last October.

00:48:24.488 --> 00:48:26.156
I'm bound to say...

00:48:26.156 --> 00:48:31.203
I never saw such reckless
extravagance in all my life.

00:48:32.538 --> 00:48:34.248
My dear fellow,
how ridiculous you are.

00:48:34.248 --> 00:48:37.042
You have your debts,
and I have mine.

00:48:37.042 --> 00:48:38.919
You know quite well
this bill is really yours.

00:48:38.919 --> 00:48:40.337
-Mine?
-Yes, and you know it.

00:48:40.337 --> 00:48:41.714
-Mr. Worthing...

00:48:41.714 --> 00:48:44.758
if this is another jest,
it is most out of place.

00:48:44.758 --> 00:48:46.594
-It is not.
-It is gross effrontery.

00:48:46.594 --> 00:48:48.178
Just what I expected from him.

00:48:48.178 --> 00:48:51.265
And it is ingratitude.
I didn't expect that.

00:48:51.265 --> 00:48:52.683
Next thing you know.
he'll be denying...

00:48:52.683 --> 00:48:55.394
he's Ernest Worthing
in the first place.

00:48:57.354 --> 00:49:00.107
I'm sorry to disturb this
so pleasant family meeting...

00:49:00.107 --> 00:49:01.567
but time presses.

00:49:01.567 --> 00:49:03.652
We have to be at Holloway
not later than four o'clock.

00:49:03.652 --> 00:49:05.571
Otherwise, it is difficult
to obtain admission.

00:49:05.571 --> 00:49:07.823
The rules are very strict.

00:49:07.823 --> 00:49:11.035
Holloway? But--Get off me!

00:49:11.035 --> 00:49:12.411
It is at Holloway that
detentions of this character...

00:49:12.411 --> 00:49:14.163
are made away.

00:49:14.163 --> 00:49:18.709
I will not be imprisoned for
having dined in the West End!

00:49:18.709 --> 00:49:20.544
Jack!

00:49:21.879 --> 00:49:23.756
I agree to settle
my brother's accounts...

00:49:25.424 --> 00:49:28.594
on the condition that he makes
his way without delay...

00:49:28.594 --> 00:49:30.763
to the bedside of
the poor bed-ridden Bunbury...

00:49:30.763 --> 00:49:32.389
whose health,
I have recently been informed...

00:49:32.389 --> 00:49:34.391
is rapidly declining.

00:49:36.310 --> 00:49:39.188
Well, Ernest?

00:50:17.017 --> 00:50:20.271
...it's only life.

00:50:22.815 --> 00:50:24.859
Mr. Worthing.

00:50:24.859 --> 00:50:26.694
I would ask you
not to interrupt...

00:50:26.694 --> 00:50:28.487
Miss Cardew's studies.

00:50:28.487 --> 00:50:30.281
Miss Prism,
I almost forgot to mention...

00:50:30.281 --> 00:50:32.825
that Dr. Chasuble
is expecting you in the vestry.

00:50:32.825 --> 00:50:35.452
In the vestry? Dr. Chasuble?

00:50:35.452 --> 00:50:37.329
Expecting you, yes.

00:50:37.329 --> 00:50:39.290
That sounds serious.

00:50:39.290 --> 00:50:42.501
I do not think it would be right
to keep him waiting, Cecily.

00:50:42.501 --> 00:50:44.253
It would be very, very wrong.

00:50:44.253 --> 00:50:47.506
The vestry is, I am told,
excessively damp.

00:51:00.686 --> 00:51:04.732
This parting, Miss Cardew,
is very painful.

00:51:04.732 --> 00:51:06.150
But I suppose
you cannot desert...

00:51:06.150 --> 00:51:08.027
poor Mr. Bunbury
in his hour of need.

00:51:08.027 --> 00:51:09.361
I don't care
about Bunbury anymore.

00:51:09.361 --> 00:51:13.073
I don't seem to care
about anything anymore.

00:51:13.073 --> 00:51:16.493
I only care for you.
I love you, Cecily.

00:51:22.291 --> 00:51:24.418
Will you marry me, Cecily?
Will you?

00:51:24.418 --> 00:51:26.378
Of course.

00:51:26.378 --> 00:51:29.215
Why, we have been engaged
for the last three months.

00:51:30.716 --> 00:51:33.219
For the last three months?

00:51:33.219 --> 00:51:35.888
Yes. It will be exactly
three months on Thursday.

00:51:37.389 --> 00:51:38.599
Darling...

00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:39.850
Aah!

00:51:42.895 --> 00:51:47.399
So, when was the engagement
actually settled?

00:51:47.399 --> 00:51:49.902
On the fourteenth
of February last.

00:51:49.902 --> 00:51:51.445
After a long struggle
with myself...

00:51:51.445 --> 00:51:54.073
I accepted you
under this dear old tree here.

00:51:54.073 --> 00:51:58.244
And this is the box in which
I keep all your dear letters.

00:51:58.244 --> 00:51:59.662
My letters?

00:51:59.662 --> 00:52:01.914
But my own sweet Cecily, I have
never written you any letters.

00:52:01.914 --> 00:52:04.208
You need hardly
remind me of that, Ernest.

00:52:04.208 --> 00:52:05.376
I remember only too well...

00:52:05.376 --> 00:52:07.211
that I was forced
to write your letters for you.

00:52:08.546 --> 00:52:10.881
I wrote always three times
a week and sometimes oftener.

00:52:10.881 --> 00:52:13.634
-Do let me look at them.
-Oh, no, I couldn't possibly.

00:52:13.634 --> 00:52:16.762
They would make you
far too conceited.

00:52:16.762 --> 00:52:19.265
The three you wrote after I had
broken off the engagement...

00:52:19.265 --> 00:52:22.268
were so beautiful
and so badly spelled.

00:52:22.268 --> 00:52:24.979
Even now I can hardly read them
without crying a little.

00:52:24.979 --> 00:52:26.939
Was our engagement
ever broken off?

00:52:26.939 --> 00:52:29.024
-Yes, of course it was.
-What?

00:52:29.024 --> 00:52:30.609
On the twenty-second
of last March.

00:52:30.609 --> 00:52:32.945
You can see the entry
if you like.

00:52:35.156 --> 00:52:38.284
"Today I broke off
my engagement with Ernest.

00:52:38.284 --> 00:52:39.869
"The weather
still continues charming."

00:52:39.869 --> 00:52:41.245
Why on earth
did you break it off?

00:52:41.245 --> 00:52:43.205
What had I done?
I had done nothing at all.

00:52:43.205 --> 00:52:45.666
I'm very much hurt indeed
to hear you broke it off.

00:52:45.666 --> 00:52:47.460
Particularly when
the weather was so charming.

00:52:47.460 --> 00:52:50.880
Well, it would hardly have been
a really serious engagement...

00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.841
if I hadn't broken it off
at least once, Ernest.

00:52:53.841 --> 00:52:56.802
But I forgave you
before the week was out.

00:52:56.802 --> 00:52:59.555
Oh, you're a perfect angel.

00:52:59.555 --> 00:53:02.767
-You dear romantic boy.
-Mmm.

00:53:24.330 --> 00:53:26.874
You know, I never really
thought of myself...

00:53:26.874 --> 00:53:29.210
as the marrying kind until now.

00:53:29.210 --> 00:53:31.629
You mustn't break it off
again, Cecily.

00:53:31.629 --> 00:53:33.589
Well, I don't think
I could break it off...

00:53:33.589 --> 00:53:35.299
now that I've actually met you.

00:53:37.635 --> 00:53:40.513
Besides, of course, there is
the question of your name.

00:53:42.681 --> 00:53:44.016
Yes, of course.

00:53:44.016 --> 00:53:45.434
You mustn't laugh at me,
darling...

00:53:45.434 --> 00:53:47.770
but it has always been
a girlish dream of mine...

00:53:47.770 --> 00:53:50.356
to love someone
whose name is Ernest.

00:53:51.524 --> 00:53:52.817
There's something
in that name...

00:53:52.817 --> 00:53:56.195
that seems to inspire
absolute confidence.

00:53:56.195 --> 00:53:58.864
My own dear joy, do you mean
to say you couldn't love me...

00:53:58.864 --> 00:54:00.324
if I had another name?

00:54:00.324 --> 00:54:04.036
-But what name?
-Well...

00:54:04.036 --> 00:54:06.914
Algy, for instance.

00:54:06.914 --> 00:54:09.208
I might respect you, Ernest...

00:54:09.208 --> 00:54:12.211
I might admire
your character...

00:54:12.211 --> 00:54:14.213
but I fear that I would
never be able to give you...

00:54:14.213 --> 00:54:17.425
my undivided attention.

00:54:17.425 --> 00:54:20.302
Mmm. Mmm.

00:54:20.302 --> 00:54:22.221
Ahem.

00:54:22.221 --> 00:54:25.766
The dog cart
is ready for you, sir.

00:54:25.766 --> 00:54:27.017
-Ahem.
-Ahem.

00:54:27.017 --> 00:54:28.185
And now you must go, my love...

00:54:28.185 --> 00:54:29.854
for sooner then
shall you return.

00:54:34.233 --> 00:54:37.611
Oh, what a charming boy.

00:54:37.611 --> 00:54:39.947
I like his hair so much.

00:54:47.955 --> 00:54:50.541
You wanted to see me,
Dr. Chasuble?

00:54:53.753 --> 00:54:55.337
I didn't.

00:54:57.089 --> 00:54:59.008
Oh.

00:54:59.008 --> 00:55:00.259
You didn't?

00:55:02.928 --> 00:55:04.847
Oh.

00:55:10.269 --> 00:55:11.479
I'm sorry...

00:55:11.479 --> 00:55:14.148
but merely for
the purposes of clarification...

00:55:14.148 --> 00:55:16.108
when you said you didn't...

00:55:16.108 --> 00:55:19.779
did you mean you didn't say
you wanted to see me...

00:55:19.779 --> 00:55:23.115
or that you didn't, in fact,
want to see me?

00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.790
Isn't language a curious thing?

00:55:32.625 --> 00:55:33.793
Will you excuse me?

00:55:33.793 --> 00:55:36.212
I have a double baptism
this afternoon...

00:55:36.212 --> 00:55:38.923
and I have to top up the font.

00:56:09.036 --> 00:56:12.123
Bless you.

00:56:14.291 --> 00:56:17.753
A Miss Fairfax has called
to see Mr. Worthing--

00:56:17.753 --> 00:56:21.298
on very important business,
Miss Fairfax states.

00:56:21.298 --> 00:56:23.217
Mr. Worthing is sure
to be out soon, Merriman...

00:56:23.217 --> 00:56:24.969
so kindly bring some tea.

00:56:24.969 --> 00:56:26.220
Yes, miss.

00:56:30.308 --> 00:56:32.518
-Miss Cardew.
-Thank you.

00:56:32.518 --> 00:56:36.188
Miss Fairfax, pray let me
introduce myself to you.

00:56:36.188 --> 00:56:37.356
My name is Cecily Cardew.

00:56:37.356 --> 00:56:40.943
Cecily Cardew.
What a very sweet name.

00:56:40.943 --> 00:56:43.446
Something tells me
we're going to be great friends.

00:56:43.446 --> 00:56:45.448
I like you already
more than I can say...

00:56:45.448 --> 00:56:47.992
and my first impressions
of people are never wrong.

00:56:58.711 --> 00:57:00.671
You're here on a short visit,
I suppose.

00:57:00.671 --> 00:57:02.715
-Oh, no, I live here.
-Really?

00:57:02.715 --> 00:57:05.635
Your mother, no doubt,
or some female relative...

00:57:05.635 --> 00:57:08.179
of advanced years
resides here also.

00:57:08.179 --> 00:57:10.556
Oh, no. I have no mother,
nor, in fact, any relations.

00:57:10.556 --> 00:57:11.932
-Indeed.
-My dear guardian...

00:57:11.932 --> 00:57:13.726
has the arduous task
of looking after me.

00:57:13.726 --> 00:57:17.480
-Your guardian?
-I'm Mr. Worthing's ward.

00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:19.190
Oh.

00:57:20.608 --> 00:57:23.861
It is strange.
He never mentioned it.

00:57:23.861 --> 00:57:26.155
How secretive of him.
Ha ha ha!

00:57:26.155 --> 00:57:29.575
He grows
more interesting hourly.

00:57:29.575 --> 00:57:32.912
But I am bound to state that...

00:57:32.912 --> 00:57:35.581
now that I know
you are Mr. Worthing's ward...

00:57:35.581 --> 00:57:38.250
I cannot help expressing
a wish that you were...

00:57:38.250 --> 00:57:41.963
well, just a little bit older
than you seem to be...

00:57:41.963 --> 00:57:44.382
and not quite so very alluring
in appearance.

00:57:45.549 --> 00:57:47.969
In fact,
if I may speak candidly...

00:57:47.969 --> 00:57:49.553
Pray do.
I think whenever one...

00:57:49.553 --> 00:57:51.097
has anything unpleasant
to say...

00:57:51.097 --> 00:57:53.266
one should always be
quite candid.

00:57:53.266 --> 00:57:57.645
Yes. Well, to speak
with perfect candour, Cecily...

00:57:57.645 --> 00:57:59.730
I wish
you were fully forty-two...

00:57:59.730 --> 00:58:02.733
and more than usually plain
for your age.

00:58:06.112 --> 00:58:08.781
Ernest has
a strong upright nature.

00:58:08.781 --> 00:58:10.866
He's the very soul
of truth and honour.

00:58:10.866 --> 00:58:12.660
I think--I think Jack,
for instance.

00:58:12.660 --> 00:58:16.414
Jack. I think Jack,
for instance, a charming name.

00:58:16.414 --> 00:58:18.249
Oh. but it is not
Mr. Ernest Worthing...

00:58:18.249 --> 00:58:19.500
who's my guardian.

00:58:19.500 --> 00:58:21.836
It is his brother,
his elder brother.

00:58:21.836 --> 00:58:24.255
Oh. That accounts for it.

00:58:25.423 --> 00:58:27.300
Cecily, you've lifted a load
from my mind.

00:58:27.300 --> 00:58:29.093
I was growing almost anxious.

00:58:30.928 --> 00:58:32.388
Of course, you're quite sure...

00:58:32.388 --> 00:58:35.099
it's not Mr. Ernest Worthing
who is your guardian?

00:58:35.099 --> 00:58:37.643
Quite sure.

00:58:37.643 --> 00:58:39.437
In fact...

00:58:40.855 --> 00:58:43.566
I am going to be his.

00:58:45.067 --> 00:58:46.777
I beg your pardon?

00:58:46.777 --> 00:58:50.656
Mr. Ernest Worthing and I
are engaged to be married.

00:58:53.618 --> 00:58:57.330
My darling Cecily, I think
there must be some slight error.

00:58:57.330 --> 00:59:00.499
Mr. Ernest Worthing
is engaged to me.

00:59:00.499 --> 00:59:02.418
The announcement will appear
in the Morning Post...

00:59:02.418 --> 00:59:04.879
on Saturday at the latest.

00:59:04.879 --> 00:59:07.965
I'm afraid you must be
under some misconception.

00:59:07.965 --> 00:59:10.343
Ernest proposed to me
exactly ten minutes ago.

00:59:10.343 --> 00:59:13.971
Oh, it's very curious, for
he asked me to be his wife...

00:59:13.971 --> 00:59:16.974
yesterday afternoon
at five thirty.

00:59:16.974 --> 00:59:21.145
If you would care to verify
the incident, pray do so.

00:59:22.730 --> 00:59:24.482
I never travel
without my diary.

00:59:24.482 --> 00:59:26.692
One should always have
something sensational to read...

00:59:26.692 --> 00:59:28.152
in the train.

00:59:28.152 --> 00:59:30.571
I'm so sorry, dear Cecily...

00:59:30.571 --> 00:59:33.157
but I'm afraid
I have the prior claim.

01:00:05.606 --> 01:00:07.900
May I offer you some tea,
Miss Fairfax?

01:00:07.900 --> 01:00:09.944
Thank you, Miss Cardew.

01:00:09.944 --> 01:00:11.696
Sugar?

01:00:11.696 --> 01:00:14.699
No, thank you. Sugar
is not fashionable anymore.

01:00:33.593 --> 01:00:35.428
Cake or bread and butter?

01:00:35.428 --> 01:00:36.762
Bread and butter, please.

01:00:36.762 --> 01:00:39.724
Cake is rarely seen
in the best houses nowadays.

01:00:54.655 --> 01:00:56.782
From the moment I saw you,
I distrusted you.

01:00:56.782 --> 01:00:58.993
I felt that you were
false and deceitful.

01:00:58.993 --> 01:01:01.621
It seems to me, Miss Fairfax...

01:01:01.621 --> 01:01:04.081
that I am trespassing
on your valuable time.

01:01:04.081 --> 01:01:05.500
No doubt,
you have many other calls...

01:01:05.500 --> 01:01:07.960
of a similar character
to make in the neighbourhood.

01:01:09.462 --> 01:01:10.755
Ernest.

01:01:16.427 --> 01:01:18.721
-You're back so soon.
-My own love.

01:01:18.721 --> 01:01:19.931
A moment, Ernest.

01:01:19.931 --> 01:01:21.307
May I ask you--

01:01:21.307 --> 01:01:23.476
are you engaged to be married
to this young lady?

01:01:23.476 --> 01:01:24.769
What young lady?

01:01:26.187 --> 01:01:27.814
Good heavens, Gwendolen.

01:01:27.814 --> 01:01:29.357
Yes, to
"Good heavens, Gwendolen".

01:01:29.357 --> 01:01:31.359
Of course not.
What put such an idea...

01:01:31.359 --> 01:01:32.527
into your pretty little head?

01:01:32.527 --> 01:01:34.487
Thank you. You may.

01:01:34.487 --> 01:01:36.864
I felt there must be
some slight error, Miss Cardew.

01:01:36.864 --> 01:01:38.533
The gentleman
who is now embracing you...

01:01:38.533 --> 01:01:42.328
is my cousin
Mr. Algernon Moncrieff.

01:01:42.328 --> 01:01:45.748
Algernon? Moncrieff?

01:01:45.748 --> 01:01:47.792
-Yes.

01:01:47.792 --> 01:01:49.836
Algy.

01:01:51.504 --> 01:01:53.506
Here is Ernest.

01:01:55.007 --> 01:01:56.467
Oh, my own Ernest.

01:01:56.467 --> 01:01:58.678
Gwendolen, my darling.

01:01:58.678 --> 01:02:01.681
I knew there must be some
misunderstanding. Miss Fairfax.

01:02:01.681 --> 01:02:03.683
The man whose arm is
at present around your waist...

01:02:03.683 --> 01:02:07.186
is my guardian
Mr. John Worthing.

01:02:07.186 --> 01:02:09.689
I beg your pardon?

01:02:09.689 --> 01:02:12.567
This is Uncle Jack.

01:02:12.567 --> 01:02:14.026
Jack?

01:02:17.530 --> 01:02:19.907
Are you called Algy?

01:02:19.907 --> 01:02:22.201
I cannot deny it.

01:02:22.201 --> 01:02:26.205
Is your name really John?

01:02:26.205 --> 01:02:28.040
I could deny it if I liked.

01:02:28.040 --> 01:02:29.709
I could deny anything
if I liked...

01:02:29.709 --> 01:02:30.877
but it certainly is John.

01:02:30.877 --> 01:02:32.545
It has been John for years.

01:02:32.545 --> 01:02:34.714
A gross deception has been
practiced on both of us.

01:02:34.714 --> 01:02:37.550
-My poor wounded Cecily.
-My sweet wronged Gwendolen.

01:02:37.550 --> 01:02:39.051
Ohh.

01:02:39.051 --> 01:02:41.554
You will call me sister,
will you not?

01:02:41.554 --> 01:02:42.889
Of course.

01:02:42.889 --> 01:02:44.849
Let us go
into the house, sister.

01:02:44.849 --> 01:02:47.059
They will hardly venture
to come after us there.

01:02:47.059 --> 01:02:49.854
No. Men are so cowardly,
aren't they?

01:02:55.193 --> 01:02:57.904
How you can sit there
calmly eating muffins...

01:02:57.904 --> 01:02:59.906
when we're in this horrible
trouble I can't make out.

01:02:59.906 --> 01:03:01.616
You seem to me to be
perfectly heartless.

01:03:01.616 --> 01:03:05.787
I can hardly eat muffins
in an agitated manner, can l?

01:03:05.787 --> 01:03:07.914
The butter
would probably get on my cuffs.

01:03:07.914 --> 01:03:10.333
I say, it's perfectly heartless
you're eating muffins at all...

01:03:10.333 --> 01:03:11.751
under the circumstances.

01:03:11.751 --> 01:03:14.128
When I'm in trouble,
eating is my only consolation.

01:03:14.128 --> 01:03:17.006
Indeed, when I'm
in really great trouble...

01:03:17.006 --> 01:03:19.842
as anyone who knows me
intimately will tell you...

01:03:19.842 --> 01:03:22.261
I refuse everything
except food and drink.

01:03:22.261 --> 01:03:24.263
At the present moment,
I am eating muffins...

01:03:24.263 --> 01:03:26.390
because I am unhappy.

01:03:26.390 --> 01:03:29.102
Besides, I am
particularly fond of muffins.

01:03:29.102 --> 01:03:30.603
There's no reason why
you should eat them all...

01:03:30.603 --> 01:03:32.230
in that greedy way.

01:03:37.443 --> 01:03:39.737
Would you like some tea cake?
I don't like tea cake.

01:03:39.737 --> 01:03:41.864
Good heavens!
I suppose a man...

01:03:41.864 --> 01:03:44.450
may eat his own muffins
in his own garden.

01:03:44.450 --> 01:03:46.577
They seem to be eating muffins.

01:03:49.247 --> 01:03:50.998
But you just said
it was perfectly heartless...

01:03:50.998 --> 01:03:52.166
to eat muffins.

01:03:52.166 --> 01:03:53.835
I said it was
perfectly heartless...

01:03:53.835 --> 01:03:55.712
of you
under the circumstances.

01:03:55.712 --> 01:03:57.130
That is a very different thing.

01:03:57.130 --> 01:03:58.756
Maybe, but the muffins
are the same.

01:03:58.756 --> 01:04:00.133
No.

01:04:00.133 --> 01:04:01.467
Give them to me!

01:04:01.467 --> 01:04:02.885
Well, I certainly don't
rate your chances...

01:04:02.885 --> 01:04:04.846
with my ward, Algernon.

01:04:04.846 --> 01:04:06.222
Well, I don't think
there's much likelihood...

01:04:06.222 --> 01:04:10.226
of you, Jack, and Miss Fairfax
being united, Jack!

01:04:26.034 --> 01:04:28.119
But is there
any particular infant...

01:04:28.119 --> 01:04:30.538
in whom you are interested,
Mr. Worthing?

01:04:30.538 --> 01:04:32.373
The fact is, dear doctor...

01:04:32.373 --> 01:04:34.333
I would like to be christened
myself.

01:04:36.044 --> 01:04:38.296
This afternoon, if you have
nothing better to do.

01:04:40.006 --> 01:04:44.052
Surely, Mr. Worthing,
you've been christened already.

01:04:44.052 --> 01:04:46.346
I don't remember
anything about it.

01:04:46.346 --> 01:04:47.638
Of course, I don't know...

01:04:47.638 --> 01:04:49.349
if the thing
would bother you in any way...

01:04:49.349 --> 01:04:52.852
or if you think
that I'm a little too old now.

01:04:52.852 --> 01:04:55.271
No, no, no.
Not at all, not at all.

01:04:55.271 --> 01:04:58.274
The sprinkling
and, indeed, immersion...

01:04:58.274 --> 01:05:02.820
of adults is
a perfectly canonical practice.

01:05:02.820 --> 01:05:07.200
What hour would you wish
the ceremony performed?

01:05:07.200 --> 01:05:09.035
I might trot round
at about six o'clock...

01:05:09.035 --> 01:05:10.203
if that would suit you.

01:05:10.203 --> 01:05:12.330
Oh, perfectly, perfectly.

01:05:12.330 --> 01:05:13.498
Thank you.

01:05:18.544 --> 01:05:20.129
But we cannot both be
christened Ernest.

01:05:20.129 --> 01:05:21.714
It's absurd.

01:05:21.714 --> 01:05:23.675
I have a perfect right
to be christened if I like.

01:05:23.675 --> 01:05:25.051
But you've been christened
already.

01:05:25.051 --> 01:05:26.386
Yes, but I haven't been
christened for years.

01:05:26.386 --> 01:05:28.221
But you've been christened.
That is the important thing.

01:05:28.221 --> 01:05:31.391
Quite so. So, I know
my constitution can stand it.

01:05:31.391 --> 01:05:32.684
If you're not quite sure...

01:05:32.684 --> 01:05:34.185
about your ever
having been christened...

01:05:34.185 --> 01:05:35.978
I must say,
I think it rather dangerous...

01:05:35.978 --> 01:05:37.271
your venturing on it now.

01:05:38.439 --> 01:05:40.566
Oh, nonsense.
You are always talking nonsense.

01:06:03.589 --> 01:06:05.758
Let us preserve
a dignified silence.

01:06:05.758 --> 01:06:08.386
Certainly.
It's the only thing to do now.

01:06:09.929 --> 01:06:13.850
<i>The western wind </i>
<i>is blowing fair</i>

01:06:13.850 --> 01:06:17.854
<i>Across </i>
<i>the dark Aegean Sea</i>

01:06:17.854 --> 01:06:21.858
<i>And at the secret </i>
<i>marble stair</i>

01:06:21.858 --> 01:06:24.319
<i>My Tyrian galley </i>
<i>waits for thee</i>

01:06:25.945 --> 01:06:29.824
<i>Come down. </i>
<i>the purple sail is spread</i>

01:06:29.824 --> 01:06:33.828
<i>The watchman sleeps </i>
<i>within the town</i>

01:06:33.828 --> 01:06:35.455
This dignified silence
seems to have produced...

01:06:35.455 --> 01:06:36.748
an unpleasant effect.

01:06:36.748 --> 01:06:38.625
A most distasteful one.

01:06:38.625 --> 01:06:40.793
<i>O lady mine, come down</i>

01:06:40.793 --> 01:06:43.087
<i>Come down</i>

01:06:43.087 --> 01:06:44.964
<i>Dum dum dum dum</i>

01:06:44.964 --> 01:06:46.132
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:06:57.477 --> 01:07:01.481
<i>She will not come. </i>
<i>I know her well</i>

01:07:01.481 --> 01:07:05.485
<i>Of lover's vows. </i>
<i>she hath no care</i>

01:07:05.485 --> 01:07:09.155
<i>And little good </i>
<i>a man can tell</i>

01:07:09.155 --> 01:07:13.451
<i>For one so cruel </i>
<i>and so fair</i>

01:07:13.451 --> 01:07:17.580
<i>True love </i>
<i>is but a woman's toy</i>

01:07:17.580 --> 01:07:21.626
<i>They never know </i>
<i>the lover's pain</i>

01:07:21.626 --> 01:07:26.005
<i>And I who loved </i>
<i>as love's a boy</i>

01:07:26.005 --> 01:07:29.676
<i>Must love in vain. </i>
<i>must love in vain</i>

01:07:29.676 --> 01:07:31.094
<i>Come down</i>

01:07:33.221 --> 01:07:34.722
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:07:37.267 --> 01:07:38.518
<i>Come down</i>

01:07:40.186 --> 01:07:42.981
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:07:44.524 --> 01:07:46.109
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:07:46.109 --> 01:07:47.569
We will not be
the first to speak.

01:07:47.569 --> 01:07:48.903
Certainly not.

01:07:48.903 --> 01:07:51.656
Mr. Worthing, I have something
very particular to ask you.

01:07:51.656 --> 01:07:53.074
Much depends on your reply.

01:07:53.074 --> 01:07:55.660
Gwendolen,
your common sense is invaluable.

01:07:55.660 --> 01:07:59.414
Mr. Moncrieff, kindly answer me
the following question.

01:07:59.414 --> 01:08:02.208
Why did you pretend to be
my guardian's brother?

01:08:02.208 --> 01:08:04.586
In order that I might have
an opportunity of meeting you.

01:08:04.586 --> 01:08:07.505
That certainly seems
a satisfactory explanation.

01:08:07.505 --> 01:08:10.174
Yes, dear,
if you can believe him.

01:08:10.174 --> 01:08:12.260
Well, I don't,
but that doesn't affect...

01:08:12.260 --> 01:08:13.970
the wonderful beauty
of his answer.

01:08:13.970 --> 01:08:16.055
True. In matters
of grave importance...

01:08:16.055 --> 01:08:18.558
style, not sincerity,
is the vital thing.

01:08:18.558 --> 01:08:21.227
Mr. Worthing,
what possible explanation...

01:08:21.227 --> 01:08:24.522
can you offer me for
pretending to have a brother?

01:08:29.027 --> 01:08:31.446
Was it in order that
you might have an opportunity...

01:08:31.446 --> 01:08:35.533
of coming up to town to see me
as often as possible?

01:08:35.533 --> 01:08:38.453
Can you doubt it, Miss Fairfax?

01:08:38.453 --> 01:08:40.413
I have the gravest doubts
on the subject...

01:08:40.413 --> 01:08:43.416
but I intend to crush them.

01:08:45.043 --> 01:08:49.005
Their explanations appear
to be quite satisfactory, espe--

01:08:50.340 --> 01:08:51.758
Especially Mr. Worthing's.

01:08:51.758 --> 01:08:54.219
That seems to me to have
the stamp of truth upon it.

01:08:54.219 --> 01:08:56.930
I am more than content
with what Mr. Moncrieff said.

01:08:56.930 --> 01:09:00.391
His voice alone seemed to
inspire absolute credulity.

01:09:00.391 --> 01:09:01.601
Then you think
we should forgive them?

01:09:01.601 --> 01:09:02.769
Yes.

01:09:04.771 --> 01:09:06.064
I mean, no.

01:09:06.064 --> 01:09:07.732
True, there are principles
at stake...

01:09:07.732 --> 01:09:09.526
that one cannot surrender.

01:09:19.077 --> 01:09:22.497
Your Christian names are
still an insuperable barrier.

01:09:22.497 --> 01:09:23.915
That is all.

01:09:23.915 --> 01:09:26.334
-Our Christian names?
-Is that all?

01:09:26.334 --> 01:09:28.753
We're going to be
christened this afternoon.

01:09:28.753 --> 01:09:31.631
For my sake, you're prepared
to do this terrible thing?

01:09:31.631 --> 01:09:32.924
I am.

01:09:32.924 --> 01:09:36.135
To please me, you're ready
to face this fearful ordeal?

01:09:36.135 --> 01:09:37.303
I am.

01:09:37.303 --> 01:09:38.763
Where questions of
self-sacrifice are concerned...

01:09:38.763 --> 01:09:40.014
men are infinitely beyond us.

01:09:40.014 --> 01:09:42.308
-We are.
-Darling.

01:09:42.308 --> 01:09:43.810
Darling.

01:09:46.145 --> 01:09:49.148
-Lady Bracknell.
-Gwendolen!

01:09:49.148 --> 01:09:51.651
What does this mean?

01:09:51.651 --> 01:09:55.613
Merely that I am engaged to be
married to Mr. Worthing, Mama.

01:09:55.613 --> 01:09:57.240
Come here.

01:09:57.240 --> 01:09:58.449
Sit down.

01:09:59.951 --> 01:10:02.287
Sit down immediately.

01:10:08.501 --> 01:10:10.128
Of course, you will
clearly understand, sir...

01:10:10.128 --> 01:10:12.297
that all communication between
yourself and my daughter...

01:10:12.297 --> 01:10:14.632
must cease immediately
from this moment.

01:10:14.632 --> 01:10:17.177
On this point, as indeed
on all points, I am firm.

01:10:17.177 --> 01:10:19.429
I am engaged to be married
to Gwendolen, Lady Bracknell.

01:10:19.429 --> 01:10:22.682
You are
nothing of the kind, sir.

01:10:25.477 --> 01:10:28.855
And now, as regards Algy...

01:10:31.524 --> 01:10:32.984
Algy?

01:10:32.984 --> 01:10:34.736
Yes, Aunt Augusta.

01:10:34.736 --> 01:10:36.863
May I ask if it is
in this house...

01:10:36.863 --> 01:10:39.199
that your invalid friend
Mr. Bunbury resides?

01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:41.284
Oh, no,
Bunbury doesn't live here.

01:10:41.284 --> 01:10:43.495
Bunbury's somewhere else
at the present.

01:10:43.495 --> 01:10:46.372
In fact, um, ahem...

01:10:46.372 --> 01:10:48.500
Bunbury is dead.

01:10:49.876 --> 01:10:53.421
-Dead?
-Dead.

01:10:53.421 --> 01:10:55.215
When did Mr. Bunbury die?

01:10:55.215 --> 01:10:57.008
His death must've been
extremely sudden.

01:10:57.008 --> 01:10:59.552
Bunbury died this afternoon.

01:10:59.552 --> 01:11:01.346
What did he die of?

01:11:01.346 --> 01:11:03.348
Bunbury?

01:11:03.348 --> 01:11:05.725
He was quite exploded.

01:11:05.725 --> 01:11:08.686
Exploded?

01:11:08.686 --> 01:11:10.063
Mm.

01:11:10.063 --> 01:11:12.816
Was he the victim
of some revolutionary outrage?

01:11:12.816 --> 01:11:14.484
I was not aware that
Mr. Bunbury was interested...

01:11:14.484 --> 01:11:15.860
in social legislation.

01:11:15.860 --> 01:11:19.572
My dear Aunt Augusta,
I mean he was found out.

01:11:19.572 --> 01:11:22.117
The doctors found out
that Bunbury could not live.

01:11:22.117 --> 01:11:23.868
That is what I mean.

01:11:23.868 --> 01:11:25.120
So Bunbury died.

01:11:26.329 --> 01:11:28.164
He seems to have had
great confidence...

01:11:28.164 --> 01:11:30.416
in the opinion
of his physicians.

01:11:30.416 --> 01:11:32.252
I am glad, however,
that he made his up mind...

01:11:32.252 --> 01:11:34.504
at the last to some
definite course of action...

01:11:34.504 --> 01:11:37.132
and acted under
proper medical advice.

01:11:37.132 --> 01:11:41.469
And now that we have finally
got rid of this Mr. Bunbury...

01:11:41.469 --> 01:11:44.764
may I ask, Mr. Worthing,
who is that young person...

01:11:44.764 --> 01:11:47.100
whose hand my nephew Algernon
is now holding...

01:11:47.100 --> 01:11:51.438
in what seems to me to be
a peculiarly unnecessary manner?

01:11:51.438 --> 01:11:54.065
That lady is
Miss Cecily Cardew, my ward.

01:11:54.065 --> 01:11:57.110
Yes, I am engaged
to be married to Cecily, Aunt Augusta.

01:11:57.110 --> 01:11:58.278
I beg your pardon?

01:11:58.278 --> 01:12:00.989
Mr. Moncrieff and I
are engaged to be married, Lady Bracknell.

01:12:00.989 --> 01:12:03.116
I do not know
whether there's anything...

01:12:03.116 --> 01:12:04.909
peculiarly exciting
about the air...

01:12:04.909 --> 01:12:07.245
of this particular part
of Hertfordshire...

01:12:07.245 --> 01:12:09.664
but the number of engagements
that go on seem to me...

01:12:09.664 --> 01:12:11.791
to be considerably above
the proper average...

01:12:11.791 --> 01:12:15.628
that statistics have laid down
for our guidance.

01:12:15.628 --> 01:12:16.796
Mr. Worthing...

01:12:16.796 --> 01:12:19.340
is Miss Cardew
at all connected...

01:12:19.340 --> 01:12:22.260
with any of the larger
railway stations in London?

01:12:22.260 --> 01:12:26.264
I merely desire information.

01:12:26.264 --> 01:12:27.515
Until recently,
I was not aware...

01:12:27.515 --> 01:12:29.976
that there were
any families or persons...

01:12:29.976 --> 01:12:31.978
whose origin was a terminus.

01:12:34.647 --> 01:12:37.442
Gwendolen, the time approaches
for our departure.

01:12:37.442 --> 01:12:38.777
We have not a moment to lose.

01:12:38.777 --> 01:12:40.111
As a matter of form,
Mr. Worthing, I'd better ask...

01:12:40.111 --> 01:12:42.030
if Miss Cardew
has any little fortune.

01:12:42.030 --> 01:12:46.618
Oh, about £130,000
in the funds, that is all.

01:12:46.618 --> 01:12:48.661
Good-bye, Lady Bracknell,
so pleased to have seen you.

01:12:48.661 --> 01:12:51.748
A moment, Mr. Worthing.

01:12:51.748 --> 01:12:55.210
A hundred and thirty thousand
pounds?

01:12:56.669 --> 01:12:58.588
And in the funds?

01:13:01.925 --> 01:13:04.844
Miss Cardew seems to me to be
a most attractive young lady...

01:13:04.844 --> 01:13:07.180
now that I look at her.

01:13:07.180 --> 01:13:09.808
Come over here, dear.

01:13:12.852 --> 01:13:15.480
The chin a little higher, dear.

01:13:15.480 --> 01:13:18.858
Style largely depends
on the way the chin is worn.

01:13:18.858 --> 01:13:21.528
They're worn very high
just at present.

01:13:21.528 --> 01:13:23.863
-Algy?
-Yes, Aunt Augusta.

01:13:23.863 --> 01:13:25.156
There are distinct
social possibilities...

01:13:25.156 --> 01:13:26.574
in Miss Cardew's profile.

01:13:26.574 --> 01:13:28.785
Cecily is the sweetest,
dearest, prettiest girl...

01:13:28.785 --> 01:13:30.370
in the whole world,
and I don't give tuppence...

01:13:30.370 --> 01:13:31.913
for her social possibilities.

01:13:31.913 --> 01:13:35.333
Never speak disrespectfully
of society, Algernon.

01:13:35.333 --> 01:13:38.378
Only people who can't
get into it do that.

01:13:39.629 --> 01:13:40.880
Dear child,
you know, of course...

01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:44.467
that Algy has nothing
but his debts to depend upon.

01:13:44.467 --> 01:13:48.430
But I do not approve
of mercenary marriages.

01:13:48.430 --> 01:13:51.516
Indeed, when I married
Lord Bracknell...

01:13:51.516 --> 01:13:53.852
I had no fortune of any kind.

01:14:04.904 --> 01:14:07.866
But I never
dreamed for a moment...

01:14:07.866 --> 01:14:10.744
of allowing that
to stand in my way.

01:14:14.581 --> 01:14:16.583
Well, I suppose
I must give my consent.

01:14:16.583 --> 01:14:18.460
Thank you, Aunt Augusta.

01:14:18.460 --> 01:14:20.420
I beg your pardon
for interrupting you...

01:14:20.420 --> 01:14:22.088
Lady Bracknell, but I am
Miss Cardew's guardian.

01:14:22.088 --> 01:14:24.049
She cannot marry
without my consent...

01:14:24.049 --> 01:14:25.383
until she comes of age...

01:14:25.383 --> 01:14:29.220
and that consent
I absolutely decline to give.

01:14:29.220 --> 01:14:32.098
Upon what grounds, may I ask?

01:14:32.098 --> 01:14:35.310
I suspect him
of being untruthful.

01:14:35.310 --> 01:14:36.978
Untruthful?

01:14:36.978 --> 01:14:39.147
My nephew Algy?

01:14:39.147 --> 01:14:42.442
I fear there can be no
possible doubt about the matter.

01:14:46.821 --> 01:14:49.157
During my temporary absence
in London...

01:14:49.157 --> 01:14:51.743
on an important question
of romance...

01:14:51.743 --> 01:14:54.162
he obtained admission
to my house...

01:14:54.162 --> 01:14:58.249
by means of the false pretence
of being my brother.

01:14:59.542 --> 01:15:00.960
He then proceeded
to win over...

01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:02.170
the affections
of my only ward...

01:15:02.170 --> 01:15:04.089
when his own intentions,
I'm utterly convinced...

01:15:04.089 --> 01:15:05.840
were purely financial.

01:15:05.840 --> 01:15:07.634
Deny it if you dare.

01:15:07.634 --> 01:15:09.719
He subsequently stayed
to tea...

01:15:09.719 --> 01:15:12.889
and devoured
every single muffin...

01:15:12.889 --> 01:15:15.141
and what makes his behaviour
all the more heartless...

01:15:15.141 --> 01:15:16.476
is that he was perfectly
aware from the start...

01:15:16.476 --> 01:15:18.478
that I have no brother,
that I never had a brother...

01:15:18.478 --> 01:15:20.939
and that I don't intend to have
a brother, not even of any kind.

01:15:20.939 --> 01:15:23.149
-Uncle Jack, please!
-On my word, Jack.

01:15:23.149 --> 01:15:26.569
Come here, sweet child.

01:15:26.569 --> 01:15:28.655
How old are you, dear?

01:15:28.655 --> 01:15:31.950
-Eighteen, Aunt Augusta.
-Eighteen!

01:15:31.950 --> 01:15:34.327
Well, it will not be long
before you are of age...

01:15:34.327 --> 01:15:36.621
and free from the restraints
of your guardian.

01:15:36.621 --> 01:15:39.374
According to the terms
of her grandfather's will...

01:15:39.374 --> 01:15:43.336
she does not come legally
of age until she is thirty-five.

01:15:43.336 --> 01:15:46.715
That does not seem to me
to be a grave objection.

01:15:46.715 --> 01:15:49.009
Thirty-five
is a very attractive age.

01:15:49.009 --> 01:15:50.593
London society
is full of women...

01:15:50.593 --> 01:15:52.846
of the very highest birth
who have...

01:15:52.846 --> 01:15:56.516
of their own free choice,
remained thirty-five for years.

01:15:56.516 --> 01:15:59.352
Algy, could you wait for me
till I was thirty-five?

01:15:59.352 --> 01:16:01.271
Of course, I could.
You know I could.

01:16:01.271 --> 01:16:03.231
Yes, I felt it instinctively.

01:16:03.231 --> 01:16:05.150
But I couldn't wait
all that time.

01:16:05.150 --> 01:16:07.235
Then what is to be done,
Cecily?

01:16:07.235 --> 01:16:09.946
I don't know, Mr. Moncrieff.

01:16:11.781 --> 01:16:13.491
My dear Mr. Worthing...

01:16:13.491 --> 01:16:16.828
as Miss Cardew
states quite positively...

01:16:16.828 --> 01:16:19.331
that she cannot wait
until she is thirty-five--

01:16:19.331 --> 01:16:20.874
a remark
which I am bound to say...

01:16:20.874 --> 01:16:23.918
seems to me to show
a somewhat impatient nature--

01:16:23.918 --> 01:16:28.256
I would beg you
to reconsider your decision.

01:16:28.256 --> 01:16:31.593
Dear Lady Bracknell, the matter
is entirely in your own hands.

01:16:31.593 --> 01:16:33.803
The moment you consent
to my marriage with Gwendolen...

01:16:33.803 --> 01:16:35.764
I will most gladly allow
your nephew...

01:16:35.764 --> 01:16:38.016
to form an alliance
with my ward.

01:16:39.768 --> 01:16:44.731
You must be aware that what you
propose is out of the question.

01:16:44.731 --> 01:16:46.066
Then a passionate celibacy...

01:16:46.066 --> 01:16:49.736
is all any of us
can look forward to.

01:16:49.736 --> 01:16:51.321
-Oh, but Mama.
-Come, dear.

01:16:51.321 --> 01:16:53.615
We've already missed five,
if not six, trains.

01:16:53.615 --> 01:16:56.409
To miss any more might expose
us to comment on the platform.

01:16:57.577 --> 01:16:59.371
Everything is quite ready
for the christenings.

01:17:00.872 --> 01:17:02.540
The christenings, sir?

01:17:02.540 --> 01:17:04.918
Is not that
somewhat premature?

01:17:04.918 --> 01:17:07.921
But both of these gentlemen
have expressed a desire...

01:17:07.921 --> 01:17:09.923
for immediate baptism.

01:17:09.923 --> 01:17:14.052
At their age? The idea
is grotesque and irreligious.

01:17:14.052 --> 01:17:16.096
Algy,
I forbid you to be baptized.

01:17:16.096 --> 01:17:18.598
I will not hear
of such excesses.

01:17:20.100 --> 01:17:24.729
I'm sorry
to interrupt, Dr. Chasuble.

01:17:24.729 --> 01:17:26.022
Yes, yes.

01:17:30.193 --> 01:17:32.988
Miss Prism
has asked me to tell you...

01:17:32.988 --> 01:17:35.448
she's waiting for you
in the vestry.

01:17:35.448 --> 01:17:38.243
Indeed. I believe she's been
waiting for some time.

01:17:38.243 --> 01:17:43.248
Miss Prism in the vestry.

01:17:43.248 --> 01:17:45.166
Waiting for you.

01:17:45.166 --> 01:17:46.793
Yes.

01:17:46.793 --> 01:17:48.378
Miss Prism?

01:17:49.754 --> 01:17:52.048
Did I hear you mention
a Miss Prism?

01:17:52.048 --> 01:17:53.466
Yes, madame. I'm--

01:17:53.466 --> 01:17:55.802
I'm on my--

01:17:57.304 --> 01:17:59.472
-Bless you.
-Yes, madame, I'm on my way...

01:17:59.472 --> 01:18:00.974
to--to--to join her.

01:18:00.974 --> 01:18:03.602
Is this Miss Prism
a female of repellent aspect...

01:18:03.602 --> 01:18:05.812
remotely connected
with education?

01:18:05.812 --> 01:18:08.690
She is the most cultivated
of ladies...

01:18:08.690 --> 01:18:11.151
and the picture
of respectability.

01:18:11.151 --> 01:18:13.111
It is obviously
the same person.

01:18:13.111 --> 01:18:16.323
Dr. Chasuble,
take me to the vestry at once.

01:18:25.832 --> 01:18:28.501
I've been expecting you,
dear doctor.

01:18:31.338 --> 01:18:32.797
Prism!

01:18:38.845 --> 01:18:40.096
Prism.

01:18:48.688 --> 01:18:49.856
Prism!

01:18:55.529 --> 01:18:57.197
Where is that baby?

01:19:14.214 --> 01:19:16.550
Thirty-four years ago. Prism...

01:19:16.550 --> 01:19:18.176
you left
Lord Bracknell's house...

01:19:18.176 --> 01:19:20.428
Number 104.
Upper Grosvenor Street...

01:19:20.428 --> 01:19:21.721
in charge of a perambulator...

01:19:21.721 --> 01:19:24.724
that contained a baby
of the male sex.

01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:28.562
You never returned.

01:19:28.562 --> 01:19:31.565
A few weeks later, through
the elaborate investigations...

01:19:31.565 --> 01:19:33.191
of the metropolitan police...

01:19:33.191 --> 01:19:35.902
the perambulator
was discovered at midnight...

01:19:35.902 --> 01:19:40.574
standing by itself in
a remote corner of Bayswater.

01:19:40.574 --> 01:19:43.451
It contained the manuscript
of a three-volume novel...

01:19:43.451 --> 01:19:47.747
of more than usually
revolting sentimentality.

01:19:49.166 --> 01:19:51.835
But the baby was not there.

01:19:51.835 --> 01:19:54.588
Prism, where is that baby?

01:19:54.588 --> 01:19:56.756
Lady Bracknell...

01:19:56.756 --> 01:20:00.135
I admit with shame
that I do not know.

01:20:00.135 --> 01:20:03.889
The plain facts
of the case are these--

01:20:03.889 --> 01:20:06.099
on the morning
of the day in question--

01:20:06.099 --> 01:20:08.977
a day that is forever branded
on my memory--

01:20:08.977 --> 01:20:10.604
I prepared, as usual...

01:20:10.604 --> 01:20:13.940
to take the baby
out in its perambulator.

01:20:13.940 --> 01:20:20.030
I had also with me a somewhat
old, but capacious handbag...

01:20:20.030 --> 01:20:22.532
in which I had intended
to place the manuscript...

01:20:22.532 --> 01:20:24.826
of a work of fiction
that I had written...

01:20:24.826 --> 01:20:28.580
during my few unoccupied hours.

01:20:28.580 --> 01:20:32.125
In a moment
of mental abstraction...

01:20:32.125 --> 01:20:34.795
for which
I never can forgive myself...

01:20:34.795 --> 01:20:38.340
I deposited the manuscript
in the bassinet...

01:20:41.885 --> 01:20:45.931
and placed
the baby in the handbag.

01:20:51.228 --> 01:20:54.106
...manuscript
in the bassinet...

01:20:54.106 --> 01:20:57.567
and placed the baby
in the handbag.

01:20:59.528 --> 01:21:02.239
But where did you deposit
the handbag?

01:21:03.657 --> 01:21:05.534
Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing.

01:21:05.534 --> 01:21:08.662
Miss Prism. this is a matter
of no small importance to me.

01:21:08.662 --> 01:21:10.872
I insist on knowing where
you deposited the handbag...

01:21:10.872 --> 01:21:12.499
that contained that infant.

01:21:14.042 --> 01:21:16.002
I left it in the cloakroom...

01:21:16.002 --> 01:21:19.297
of one of the larger
railway stations in London.

01:21:19.297 --> 01:21:21.174
What railway station?

01:21:21.174 --> 01:21:23.301
Victoria,

01:21:23.301 --> 01:21:26.012
the Brighton line.

01:21:27.848 --> 01:21:29.224
I--

01:21:40.402 --> 01:21:43.363
Uncle Jack
seems strangely agitated.

01:21:51.121 --> 01:21:53.582
Is this the handbag,
Miss Prism?

01:21:59.171 --> 01:22:02.215
Examine it carefully
before you speak.

01:22:02.215 --> 01:22:06.219
The happiness of more than
one life depends on your answer.

01:22:06.219 --> 01:22:08.180
The bag is undoubtedly mine.

01:22:08.180 --> 01:22:12.559
I am delighted to have it
so unexpectedly restored to me.

01:22:12.559 --> 01:22:14.394
It has been
a great inconvenience...

01:22:14.394 --> 01:22:16.438
being without it
all these years.

01:22:16.438 --> 01:22:19.608
Miss Prism, more is restored
to you than this handbag.

01:22:19.608 --> 01:22:23.236
I was the baby you placed in it.

01:22:23.236 --> 01:22:25.072
-You?
-Yes.

01:22:25.072 --> 01:22:26.615
Mother!

01:22:26.615 --> 01:22:30.243
Oh, Mr. Worthing.
I am unmarried.

01:22:30.243 --> 01:22:31.787
Unmarried?

01:22:31.787 --> 01:22:34.331
I cannot deny
that is a serious blow.

01:22:34.331 --> 01:22:36.416
But after all,
who has the right...

01:22:36.416 --> 01:22:39.086
to cast a stone
against one who has suffered?

01:22:39.086 --> 01:22:42.672
Cannot repentance
wipe out an act of folly?

01:22:42.672 --> 01:22:45.258
-Mother, I forgive you!
-No, Mr. Worthing!

01:22:45.258 --> 01:22:46.927
There is some error.

01:22:48.720 --> 01:22:50.472
There is the lady...

01:22:50.472 --> 01:22:53.100
who can tell you
who you really are.

01:22:56.269 --> 01:22:58.730
Lady Bracknell,
I hate to seem inquisitive...

01:22:58.730 --> 01:23:02.776
but would you kindly inform me
who I am?

01:23:02.776 --> 01:23:06.822
You are the son of my poor
sister Mrs. Moncrieff...

01:23:06.822 --> 01:23:10.701
and consequently
Algy's younger brother.

01:23:15.247 --> 01:23:18.041
Algy's younger brother?

01:23:43.984 --> 01:23:46.737
So...

01:23:46.737 --> 01:23:49.489
I have a brother after all.

01:23:49.489 --> 01:23:51.283
Yes.

01:23:56.955 --> 01:23:58.999
I knew I had a brother!

01:24:02.002 --> 01:24:03.962
I always said
I had a brother. Huh.

01:24:03.962 --> 01:24:07.424
Cecily, how could you ever have
doubted that I had a brother?

01:24:07.424 --> 01:24:09.509
Dr. Chasuble,
my unfortunate brother.

01:24:09.509 --> 01:24:10.677
How do you do?

01:24:10.677 --> 01:24:12.179
Miss Prism,
my unfortunate brother.

01:24:12.179 --> 01:24:13.347
How do you do?

01:24:13.347 --> 01:24:14.806
Gwendolen,
my unfortunate brother.

01:24:14.806 --> 01:24:16.058
How do you do?

01:24:16.058 --> 01:24:19.353
Lady Bracknell, my--my brother.

01:24:19.353 --> 01:24:21.021
-Algy!
-Algy!

01:24:21.021 --> 01:24:22.564
Oh!

01:24:22.564 --> 01:24:24.858
Oh!

01:24:24.858 --> 01:24:26.026
-So?
-Oh!

01:24:36.536 --> 01:24:39.414
Under these strange
and unforeseen circumstances...

01:24:39.414 --> 01:24:41.875
Mr. Moncrieff...

01:24:41.875 --> 01:24:44.419
you may kiss your Aunt Augusta.

01:24:50.926 --> 01:24:53.220
John!

01:24:56.598 --> 01:24:59.059
Mr. Moncrieff.

01:24:59.059 --> 01:25:01.937
After all that has occurred...

01:25:01.937 --> 01:25:05.065
and any inconvenience
I may have caused you...

01:25:05.065 --> 01:25:06.733
in your infancy...

01:25:06.733 --> 01:25:10.737
I feel it is my duty to resign
my position in this household.

01:25:10.737 --> 01:25:13.407
The suggestion is absurd.
I won't hear of it.

01:25:13.407 --> 01:25:16.994
Sir, it is my duty to leave.

01:25:16.994 --> 01:25:20.914
I have really nothing more
to teach dear Cecily.

01:25:20.914 --> 01:25:23.750
In the very difficult
accomplishment...

01:25:23.750 --> 01:25:25.585
of getting married...

01:25:25.585 --> 01:25:27.629
I fear
my sweet and clever pupil...

01:25:27.629 --> 01:25:30.757
has far outstripped her teacher.

01:25:33.093 --> 01:25:34.761
No.

01:25:50.527 --> 01:25:53.030
A moment, um, Miss Prism.

01:25:56.325 --> 01:25:58.410
Dr. Chasuble.

01:25:58.410 --> 01:26:00.287
I've come
to the conclusion...

01:26:00.287 --> 01:26:03.040
that the primitive church
is in error...

01:26:03.040 --> 01:26:06.418
on certain points
on the question of matrimony.

01:26:06.418 --> 01:26:12.090
Corrupt readings seem
to have crept into the text.

01:26:12.090 --> 01:26:15.677
In consequence. I--

01:26:15.677 --> 01:26:18.555
I beg to solicit...

01:26:18.555 --> 01:26:21.308
the honour of your hand.

01:26:21.308 --> 01:26:25.103
Frederick.

01:26:25.103 --> 01:26:26.438
Laetitia.

01:26:27.981 --> 01:26:30.359
-My dear Cecily.
-My dearest Algernon.

01:26:30.359 --> 01:26:31.652
My own Gwendolen.

01:26:31.652 --> 01:26:33.987
My own--
But wait! Who are you?

01:26:33.987 --> 01:26:37.032
I mean, what is your
Christian name, Mr. Moncrieff?

01:26:37.032 --> 01:26:39.493
Now you have become
someone else.

01:26:39.493 --> 01:26:41.620
Good heavens,
I'd quite forgotten that point.

01:26:41.620 --> 01:26:44.498
The question had better be
cleared up at once.

01:26:44.498 --> 01:26:46.250
Aunt Augusta, a moment.

01:26:46.250 --> 01:26:48.335
At the time when Miss Prism
left me in the handbag...

01:26:48.335 --> 01:26:50.337
had I been christened already?

01:26:50.337 --> 01:26:53.340
Yes, I think you were
christened after your father.

01:26:53.340 --> 01:26:56.301
I see. Then what was
my father's Christian name?

01:26:56.301 --> 01:26:58.595
I cannot at the present moment
recall...

01:26:58.595 --> 01:27:01.723
what the general's name was.
I have no doubt he had one.

01:27:01.723 --> 01:27:04.560
Algy, can't you recollect what
our father's Christian name was?

01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:06.395
My dear fellow, we were hardly
on speaking terms.

01:27:06.395 --> 01:27:08.146
He died when I was only three.

01:27:08.146 --> 01:27:09.690
His name would appear
on the army lists...

01:27:09.690 --> 01:27:11.817
of the period,
I suppose, Aunt Augusta.

01:27:11.817 --> 01:27:14.444
The general was essentially
a man of peace...

01:27:14.444 --> 01:27:16.822
except in his domestic life.

01:27:16.822 --> 01:27:18.699
But no doubt
his name would appear...

01:27:18.699 --> 01:27:20.367
on any military directory.

01:27:24.037 --> 01:27:26.206
The army lists
of the last 40 years are here.

01:27:26.206 --> 01:27:29.209
These delightful records should
have been my constant study.

01:27:29.209 --> 01:27:32.337
Lieutenants. captains...

01:27:32.337 --> 01:27:34.423
colonels...

01:27:34.423 --> 01:27:36.216
-Oh!
-colonels...

01:27:36.216 --> 01:27:37.509
generals.

01:27:37.509 --> 01:27:39.678
"M."

01:27:39.678 --> 01:27:42.556
"Maxbohm," "Magley"...

01:27:42.556 --> 01:27:45.142
"Markby," "Migsby," "Mobbs,"
"Moncrieff."

01:27:45.142 --> 01:27:47.060
"Lieutenant, 1860.

01:27:47.060 --> 01:27:49.396
"Christian names..."

01:28:03.827 --> 01:28:06.330
I always told you, Gwendolen...

01:28:06.330 --> 01:28:09.541
that my name was Ernest,
didn't I?

01:28:11.877 --> 01:28:13.879
Well, it is Ernest after all.

01:28:18.175 --> 01:28:20.010
I mean, it naturally is Ernest.

01:28:20.010 --> 01:28:22.930
Ernest. My own Ernest.

01:28:22.930 --> 01:28:26.725
I felt from the first that
you could have no other name.

01:29:05.430 --> 01:29:06.598
My nephew.

01:29:08.142 --> 01:29:11.103
You seem to be displaying
signs of triviality.

01:29:12.229 --> 01:29:14.106
On the contrary, Aunt Augusta.

01:29:14.106 --> 01:29:16.191
I've now realized for
the first time in my life...

01:29:16.191 --> 01:29:18.569
the vital importance
of being earnest.

01:29:18.593 --> 01:29:38.593
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01:29:54.688 --> 01:29:58.609
<i>The western wind </i>
<i>is blowing fair</i>

01:29:58.609 --> 01:30:02.571
<i>Across the dark Aegean Sea</i>

01:30:02.571 --> 01:30:06.366
<i>And at </i>
<i>the secret marble stair</i>

01:30:06.366 --> 01:30:10.162
<i>My Tyrian galley </i>
<i>waits for thee</i>

01:30:10.162 --> 01:30:14.541
<i>Come down, </i>
<i>the purple sail is spread</i>

01:30:14.541 --> 01:30:18.378
<i>The watchman </i>
<i>sleeps within the town</i>

01:30:18.378 --> 01:30:22.257
<i>Oh leave </i>
<i>thy lily-flowered bed</i>

01:30:22.257 --> 01:30:26.053
<i>Oh lady mine, come down</i>

01:30:26.053 --> 01:30:29.640
<i>Come down</i>

01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:32.184
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:30:34.186 --> 01:30:37.356
<i>Come down</i>

01:30:37.356 --> 01:30:41.401
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:30:41.401 --> 01:30:44.279
<i>Oh lady, come down</i>

01:30:46.448 --> 01:30:50.411
<i>She will not come. </i>
<i>I know her well</i>

01:30:50.411 --> 01:30:54.415
<i>Of lover's vows. </i>
<i>she hath no care</i>

01:30:54.415 --> 01:30:58.293
<i>And little good </i>
<i>a man can tell</i>

01:30:58.293 --> 01:31:02.256
<i>Of one so cruel </i>
<i>and so fair</i>

01:31:02.256 --> 01:31:06.343
<i>True love </i>
<i>is but a woman's toy</i>

01:31:06.343 --> 01:31:10.347
<i>They never know </i>
<i>the lover's pain</i>

01:31:10.347 --> 01:31:14.268
<i>And I who loved </i>
<i>as loves a boy</i>

01:31:14.268 --> 01:31:16.311
<i>Must love in vain</i>

01:31:16.311 --> 01:31:18.063
<i>Must love in vain</i>

01:31:18.063 --> 01:31:20.232
<i>Come down</i>

01:31:20.232 --> 01:31:21.734
<i>Come down</i>

01:31:21.734 --> 01:31:24.445
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:31:24.445 --> 01:31:26.113
<i>Come down</i>

01:31:26.113 --> 01:31:28.198
<i>Come down</i>

01:31:29.658 --> 01:31:31.910
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:31:34.455 --> 01:31:35.706
I think your high notes...

01:31:35.706 --> 01:31:37.207
may have damaged
our chances, old boy.

01:31:37.207 --> 01:31:38.542
You do want them
to come down, don't you?

01:31:38.542 --> 01:31:39.960
She's never
going to come down...

01:31:39.960 --> 01:31:41.920
if you're singing like that,
you’re completely out of tune.

01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:44.089
-How dare you?
-I'll take this.

01:31:44.089 --> 01:31:45.758
You leave this to me,
you go and have a lie down, old man.

01:31:45.758 --> 01:31:47.009
No, I'll take this bit.

01:31:47.009 --> 01:31:48.635
Out of my way,
I'm coming through.

01:31:48.635 --> 01:31:50.095
Go easy, my dear fellow.

01:31:50.095 --> 01:31:51.972
<i>Come do-o-o-own</i>

01:31:51.972 --> 01:31:55.517
<i>Come down</i>

01:31:55.517 --> 01:31:56.977
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:31:56.977 --> 01:31:58.687
Overdoing it, less is more.

01:31:58.687 --> 01:32:00.147
<i>Come down</i>

01:32:00.147 --> 01:32:03.484
<i>Come down</i>

01:32:03.484 --> 01:32:06.528
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:32:11.825 --> 01:32:14.620
That wasn't so bad, was it?

01:32:16.997 --> 01:32:18.707
Maybe they're not
going to come down.

01:32:18.707 --> 01:32:21.460
Think we should go up?
Maybe we should go up.

01:32:21.460 --> 01:32:23.504
Algy,
you're always talking nonsense.

01:32:23.504 --> 01:32:25.881
Well, it's better
than listening to it.

01:32:25.881 --> 01:32:33.013
<i>Lady, come down</i>

01:33:38.370 --> 01:33:41.749
Did you hear
what I was playing, Lane?

01:33:41.749 --> 01:33:44.251
I didn't think it
polite to listen, sir.