mabel chiltern. What are you doing?
lord goring. Miss Mabel, I am going to make a rather strange request to you.
mabel chiltern. [Eagerly.] Oh, pray do! I have been waiting for it all the evening.
lord goring. [Is a little taken aback, but recovers himself.] Don’t mention to anybody that I have taken charge of this brooch. Should any one write and claim it, let me know at once.
mabel chiltern. That is a strange request.
lord goring. Well, you see I gave this brooch to somebody once, years ago.
mabel chiltern. You did?
lord goring. Yes.
[lady chiltern enters alone. The other guests have gone.]
mabel chiltern. Then I shall certainly bid you good-night. Good-night, Gertrude! [Exit.]