the difference that there is between what is right and what is
wrong. SHE allowed of no compromise. _I_ allow of none.

LORD DARLINGTON. My dear Lady Windermere!

LADY WINDERMERE. [Leaning back on the sofa.] You look on me as
being behind the age.--Well, I am! I should be sorry to be on the
same level as an age like this.

LORD DARLINGTON. You think the age very bad?

LADY WINDERMERE. Yes. Nowadays people seem to look on life as a
speculation. It is not a speculation. It is a sacrament. Its
ideal is Love. Its purification is sacrifice.

LORD DARLINGTON. [Smiling.] Oh, anything is better than being
sacrificed!

LADY WINDERMERE. [Leaning forward.] Don't say that.

LORD DARLINGTON. I do say it. I feel it--I know it.

[Enter PARKER C.]

PARKER. The men want to know if they are to put the carpets on the
terrace for to-night, my lady?

LADY WINDERMERE. You don't think it will rain, Lord Darlington, do
you?