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JACK: Oh, that is all right. Cecily is not a silly, romantic girl, I am glad to say. She has got a capital appetite, goes for long walks, and__________.

pays no attention at all to her lessons. Jack says this to Algernon after he decides that his 'brother' Ernest will "be carried off suddenly in Paris, by a severe chill". To this, Algy asks whether Cecily will "feel his loss a good dead".

CECILY: What an impetuous boy he is. I like his ________ so much. I must enter his proposal in my diary.

hair. Cecily says this about Algernon after he goes to see Dr. Chasuble on "important business" (christening).

GWENDOLEN: Let us preserve a ____________ silence.

dignified. Gwendolen says this to Cecily when Jack and Algy are approaching them after the muffin episode. Of course, as she often does, Gwendolen contadicts herself and is the first to speak to the men.

ALGERNON: I am greatly distressed, Aunt Augusta, about there being no cucumbers, not even for____________.

ready money. Algy says this after Lane reports that "There were no cucumbers in the market this morning". Of course, there were cucumbers, but Algernon ate them all before Lady Bracknell arrived.

GWENDOLEN: I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely___________.

different. Gwendolen says this to Cecily after Cecily states that "this is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade." At this time, both girls are engaged to Ernest Worthing. Gwendolen has "the prior claim", but since Mr. Worthing proposed to her he "clearly has changed his mind."

CECILY: Yes, to______________, I mean to Gwendolen.

good heavens Gwendolen. This is Cecily's response to Algy when, after being asked if he was engaged to Gwendolen, he replied "Good Heavens! Gwendolen!".

LADY BRACKNELL: I would strongly advise you, Mr. Worthing, to try and acquire some relations as soon as possible and make a definite effort to produce at any rate one parent, of either sex, before the__________ is quite over.

season. After Jack asks what he can do in order to gain Gwendolen's hand in marriage, this is Lady Bracknell's response. Jack replies that he "can produce the hand-bag at any moment" but it is impossible to produce a parent. After hearing this, Lady Bracknell says that she will not allow Gwendolen to "marry into a cloak-room and form an alliance with a parcel".

MISS PRISM: Mr. Worthing! I am ___________.

unmarried. Jack thinks that Miss Prism is his mother and she 'recoils in indignant astonishment'.

JACK: Miss Cardews' family solicitors are Messrs. Markby, Markby, and_________.

Markby. Jack tells this to Lady Bracknell and she replies that "one of the Mr. Markbys is occasionally to be seen at dinner parties." Therefore, she is satisfied that Cecily's fortune is not fraud.

LADY BRACKNELL: My nephew, you seem to be displaying signs of__________.

triviality. This is the second to last line in the play, the last being: "JACK: On the contrary, Aunt Augusta, I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."