Algernon. I certainly won't leave you so long as you are in
mourning. It would be most unfriendly. If I were in mourning you
would stay with me, I suppose. I should think it very unkind if you
didn't.

Jack. Well, will you go if I change my clothes?

Algernon. Yes, if you are not too long. I never saw anybody take
so long to dress, and with such little result.

Jack. Well, at any rate, that is better than being always over-
dressed as you are.

Algernon. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for
it by being always immensely over-educated.

Jack. Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your
presence in my garden utterly absurd. However, you have got to
catch the four-five, and I hope you will have a pleasant journey
back to town. This Bunburying, as you call it, has not been a great
success for you.

[Goes into the house.]

Algernon. I think it has been a great success. I'm in love with
Cecily, and that is everything.

[Enter Cecily at the back of the garden. She picks up the can and
begins to water the flowers.] But I must see her before I go, and