ALGERNON.
Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
JACK.
Well, at any rate, that is better than being always over-dressed as you are.
ALGERNON.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
JACK.
Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd. However, you have got to catch the four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey back to town. This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great success for you.
[Goes into the house.]
ALGERNON.
I think it has been a great success. I’m in love with Cecily, and that is everything.
[Enter Cecily at the back of the garden. She picks up the can and begins to water the flowers.] But I must see her before I go, and make arrangements for another Bunbury. Ah, there she is.
CECILY.
Oh, I merely came back to water the roses. I thought you were with Uncle Jack.
ALGERNON.
He’s gone to order the dog-cart for me.
CECILY.
Oh, is he going to take you for a nice drive?