mabel chiltern. Oh! I hope you are not going to leave me all alone with Lord Goring? Especially at such an early hour in the day.
lord caversham. I am afraid I can’t take him with me to Downing Street. It is not the Prime Minster’s day for seeing the unemployed.
[Shakes hands with mabel chiltern, takes up his hat and stick, and goes out, with a parting glare of indignation at lord goring.]
mabel chiltern. [Takes up roses and begins to arrange them in a bowl on the table.] People who don’t keep their appointments in the Park are horrid.
lord goring. Detestable.
mabel chiltern. I am glad you admit it. But I wish you wouldn’t look so pleased about it.
lord goring. I can’t help it. I always look pleased when I am with you.
mabel chiltern. [Sadly.] Then I suppose it is my duty to remain with you?
lord goring. Of course it is.
mabel chiltern. Well, my duty is a thing I never do, on principle. It always depresses me. So I am afraid I must leave you.