Jack. I will take very good care you never do. She is excessively
pretty, and she is only just eighteen.

Algernon. Have you told Gwendolen yet that you have an excessively
pretty ward who is only just eighteen?

Jack. Oh! one doesn't blurt these things out to people. Cecily and
Gwendolen are perfectly certain to be extremely great friends. I'll
bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met,
they will be calling each other sister.

Algernon. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot
of other things first. Now, my dear boy, if we want to get a good
table at Willis's, we really must go and dress. Do you know it is
nearly seven?

Jack. [Irritably.] Oh! It always is nearly seven.

Algernon. Well, I'm hungry.

Jack. I never knew you when you weren't . . .

Algernon. What shall we do after dinner? Go to a theatre?

Jack. Oh no! I loathe listening.

Algernon. Well, let us go to the Club?

Jack. Oh, no! I hate talking.