An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: Act II · Simon Law
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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: Act II
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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: Act II
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: Act II
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LORD GORING: My dear Robert, it’s a very awkward business, very awkward indeed . You should have told your wife the whole thing. Secrets
from other people’s wives are a necessary luxury in modern life. So, at least, I am always told at the club by people who are bald enough to know better. But no man should have a secret from his own wife. She invariably finds it out. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN: Arthur, I couldn’t tell my wife. When could I have told her? Not last night. It would have made a life-long separation between us, and I would have lost the love of the one woman in the world I worship, of the only woman who has ever stirred love within me. Last night it would have been quite impossible . She would have turned from me in horror … in horror and in contempt.
LORD GORING: Is Lady Chiltern as perfect as all that?
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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde: Act II
