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Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honour
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2017
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89 Grosvenor Square. It's Mereston's writing. You don't mean? What! Ah, ah, ah. [He bursts into a shout of laughter.] The old sinner. And Mereston wouldn't have me in the house, if you please, because I was a dissolute libertine. And he was the president of the Broad Church Union. Good Lord, how often have I heard him say: "Gentlemen, I take my stand on the morality, the cleanliness and the purity of English Family Life." Oh, oh, oh.
Lady Frederick
I've often noticed that the religious temperament is very susceptible to the charms of my sex.
Fouldes
May I look?
Lady Frederick
Well, I don't know. I suppose so.
Fouldes
[Reading.] "Heart's delight"… And he signs himself, "your darling chickabiddy." The old ruffian.
Lady Frederick
She was a very pretty little thing.
Fouldes
I daresay, but thank heaven, I have some sense of decency left, and it outrages all my susceptibilities that a man in side-whiskers should call himself anybody's chickabiddy.
Lady Frederick
Protestations of undying affection are never ridiculous when they are accompanied by such splendid emeralds.
Fouldes
[Starting and growing suddenly serious.] And what about Maud?
Lady Frederick
Well?
Fouldes
Poor girl, it'd simply break her heart. He preached at her steadily for twenty years, and she worshipped the very ground he trod on. She'd have died of grief at his death except she felt it her duty to go on with his work.
Lady Frederick
I know.
Fouldes
By Jove, it's a good card. You were quite right to refuse the emeralds: these letters are twice as valuable.
Lady Frederick
Would you like to burn them?
Fouldes
Betsy!
Lady Frederick
There's the stove. Put them in.
[He takes them up in both hands and hurries to the stove. But he stops and brings them back, he throws them on the sofa.
Fouldes
No, I won't.
Lady Frederick
Why not?
Fouldes
It's too dooced generous. I'll fight you tooth and nail, but it's not fair to take an advantage over me like that. You'll bind my hands with fetters.
Lady Frederick
Very well. You've had your chance.
Fouldes
But, by Jove, you must have a good hand to throw away a card like that. What have you got – a straight flush?
Lady Frederick
I may be only bluffing, you know.
Fouldes
Lord, it does me good to hear your nice old Irish brogue again.
Lady Frederick
Faith, and does it?
Fouldes
I believe you only put it on to get over people.
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