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Act 1
• Lady Margaret Windermere is arranging roses in preparation for a "small but select" ball she and her husband are hosting that evening in honor of her birthday.
• Lord Darlington has come to call, and begins to flirt with Lady Windermere, who very kindly but firmly tries to discourage his attentions.
• He finally makes a thinly disguised accusation that her husband is having an affair with another woman, but she doesn't pick up on that either.
• The Duchess of Berwick and her daughter, Lady Agatha Carlisle, are announced and ushered into the morning room.
• The Duchess tells Lady Windermere that her husband has been seen often with a Mrs. Erlynne, and that Lord Windermere is suspected of having paid Mrs. Erlynne enormous sums of money.
• Lady Windermere struggles between wanting to trust her husband, and wanting to examine his bankbook to discover whether he has really been having...
This section contains 2,085 words (approx. 7 pages at 300 words per page) |
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