ALGERNON.
Why on earth then do you allow tea-cake to be served up for your guests? What ideas you have of hospitality!
JACK.
Algernon! I have already told you to go. I don’t want you here. Why don’t you go!
ALGERNON.
I haven’t quite finished my tea yet! and there is still one muffin left. [Jack groans, and sinks into a chair. Algernon still continues eating.]
ACT DROP
THIRD ACT
SCENE
Morning-room at the Manor House.
[Gwendolen and Cecily are at the window, looking out into the garden.]
GWENDOLEN.
The fact that they did not follow us at once into the house, as any one else would have done, seems to me to show that they have some sense of shame left.
CECILY.
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.