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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. SecretsÂ
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.Â
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.Â
LORD GORING: Is Lady Chiltern as perfect as all that?Â
(LORD GORING, dressed in the height of fashion, is lounging in an arm chair. SIR ROBERT CHILTERN is standing in front of the fireplace. He is evidently in a state of great mental excitement and distress. As the scene progresses he paces nervously up and down the room.)
