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SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. You prefer to be natural? MRS. CHEVELEY. Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one’s life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not—there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, a terrible courage.
Did you know her well? LORD GORING [arranging his necktie]. So little that I got engaged to be married to her once, when I was staying at the Tenbys’.
Why don’t you call me Laura? LORD GORING. I don’t like the name. MRS. CHEVELEY. You used to adore it. LORD GORING. Yes: that’s why.
