ALGERNON Certainly, Aunt Augusta. [Goes over to tea-table.] LADY BRACKNELL Won’t you come and sit here, Gwendolen? GWENDOLEN Thanks, mamma, I’m quite comfortable where I am. ALGERNON [Picking up empty plate in horror.] Good heavens! Lane! Why are there no cucumber sandwiches? I ordered them specially. LANE [Gravely.] There were no cucumbers in the market this morning, sir. I went down twice. ALGERNON No cucumbers! LANE No, sir. Not even for ready money. ALGERNON That will do, Lane, thank you. LANE Thank you, sir. [Goes out.] ALGERNON I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for ready money. |
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