MANDERS. Sunday of all days!

OSWALD. Isn't that the day to enjoy one's self? Well, never have I
heard an offensive word, and still less have I witnessed anything
that could be called immoral. No; do you know when and where I have
come across immorality in artistic circles?

MANDERS. No, thank heaven, I don't!

OSWALD. Well, then, allow me to inform you. I have met with it when
one or other of our pattern husbands and fathers has come to Paris
to have a look round on his own account, and has done the artists
the honour of visiting their humble haunts. They knew what was what.
These gentlemen could tell us all about places and things we had
never dreamt of.

MANDERS. What! Do you mean to say that respectable men from home
here would--?

OSWALD. Have you never heard these respectable men, when they got
home again, talking about the way in which immorality runs rampant
abroad?

MANDERS. Yes, no doubt--

MRS. ALVING. I have too.

OSWALD. Well, you may take their word for it. They know what they
are talking about! [Presses has hands to his head.] Oh! that that
great, free, glorious life out there should be defiled in such a way!