CECILY.
[To Algernon.] To please me you are ready to face this fearful ordeal?
ALGERNON.
I am!
GWENDOLEN.
How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.
JACK.
We are. [Clasps hands with Algernon.]
CECILY.
They have moments of physical courage of which we women know absolutely nothing.
GWENDOLEN.
[To Jack.] Darling!
ALGERNON.
[To Cecily.] Darling! [They fall into each other’s arms.]
[Enter Merriman. When he enters he coughs loudly, seeing the situation.]
MERRIMAN.
Ahem! Ahem! Lady Bracknell!
JACK.
Good heavens!