
LANE No, sir it is not a very interesting subject. ALGERNON I don’t know that I am much interested in your family life, Lane. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. ALGERNON Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that? LANE I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand. LANE I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. ALGERNON Why is it that at a bachelor’s establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. Worthing were dining with me, eight bottles of champagne are entered as having been consumed.


by the way, Lane, I see from your book that on Thursday night, when Lord Shoreman and Mr.
