OVERHEARD FRAGMENT OF A DIALOGUE
Lord Illingworth. My dear Goring, I assure you that a well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Lord Goring. My dear Illingworth, five well-made button-holes a day are far more essential. They please women, and women rule society.
"Full of good things!"
Lord Illingworth. I understood you considered women of no importance?
Lord Goring. My dear George, a man's life revolves on curves of intellect. It is on the hard lines of the emotions that a woman's life progresses. Both revolve in cycles of masterpieces. They should revolve on bi-cycles; built, if possible, for two. But I am keeping you?
Lord Illingworth. I wish you were. Nowadays it is only the poor who are kept at the expense of the rich.