MERRIMAN.
Yes, Miss. [Goes out.]
CECILY.
Miss Fairfax! I suppose one of the many good elderly women who are associated with Uncle Jack in some of his philanthropic work in London. I don’t quite like women who are interested in philanthropic work. I think it is so forward of them.
[Enter Merriman.]
MERRIMAN.
Miss Fairfax.
[Enter Gwendolen.]
[Exit Merriman.]
CECILY.
[Advancing to meet her.] Pray let me introduce myself to you. My name is Cecily Cardew.
GWENDOLEN.
Cecily Cardew? [Moving to her and shaking hands.] What a very sweet name! Something tells me that we are going to be great friends. I like you already more than I can say. My first impressions of people are never wrong.
CECILY.
How nice of you to like me so much after we have known each other such a comparatively short time. Pray sit down.
GWENDOLEN.
[Still standing up.] I may call you Cecily, may I not?