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- Child, you know how anxious your guardian is that you should improve yourself in every way. He laid particular stress on your German, as he was leaving for town yesterday. Indeed, he always lays stress on your German when he is leaving for town. CECILY. Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious! Sometimes he is so serious that I think he cannot be quite well.
- Cecily Studying German
- But I don't like German. It isn't at all a becoming language. I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson.
- Cecily Learns of Ernest's arrival
- I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
- Ernest meets Cecily
- My letters! But my own sweet Cecily, I have never written you any letters. CECILY. You need hardly remind me of that, Ernest. I remember only too well that I was forced to write your letters for you. I wrote always three times a week, and sometimes oftener.
- In the garden of The Manor House, Jack’s country estate in Hertfordshire, Miss Prism is trying to interest Cecily in her German lesson.
- Algernon and Cecily
- Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn’t think that I am wicked. CECILY. If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- Mr. Ernest Worthing has just driven over from the station with his luggage. Merriman presents Cecily with a visiting card.
- Algernon Dining with Cecily
- The visiting Mr. Ernest Worthing is actually Algernon who is pretending to be Jack’s nonexistent brother, who enters dressed to the nines and greets Cecily as his “little cousin
- Jack Suprise of Ernest
- My brother is in the dining-room? I don’t know what it all means. I think it is perfectly absurd.
- Algernon decides to reform himself that afternoon, adding that he is hungry, and he and Cecily flirt with each other as they head into the house to find sustenance.
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- Jack remembers the problem of Gwendolen and his name, and he asks Dr. Chasuble about the possibility of being christened Ernest. They make arrangements for a ceremony that afternoon. As Dr. Chasuble prepares to leave, Cecily emerges from the house with the news that “Uncle Jack’s brother” has turned up and is in the dining room.
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