Cecily+Cardew

**Key Quotations and Interpretation**
Pg31 ALGERNON [//raising his hat//]: "You are my little cousin Cecily, I'm sure." CECILY: You are under some strange mistake. I am not little. In fact, I believe I am more than usually tall for my age. [//ALGERNON is rather taken back.//] But I am your cousin Cecily. You, I see from your card, are Ucle Jack's brother, my cousin Earnest, my wicked cousin Earnest."

Pg32 CECILY: How thoughtless if me. I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals. Won't you come in?

Pg33 ALGERNON: Because you are like a pink rose, Cousin Cecily. CECILY: I don't think it can be right for you to talk to me like that, Miss Prism never says such things to me. ALGERNON: Then Miss Prism is a short-sighted old lade [//CECILY puts the rose in his buttonhole.//] You are the prettiest girl I ever saw. CECILY: Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare. ALGERNON: They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in. CECILY: Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Pg36 JACK: What nonsense! I haven't got a brother. CECILY: Oh, don't say that. However badly he may have behaved to you in the past he is still your brother. You couldn't be so heartless as to disown him....

Pg37 CECILY: Uncle Jack, do be nice. There is some good in everyone. Earnest has just been telling me about his poor invalid friend. Mr Bunbury whom he goes to visit so often. And surely there must be much good in one who is kind to an invalid, and leaves the pleasures of London to sit by a bed of pain.

Pg37 CECILY: Uncle Jack, if you don't shake hands with Earnest I will never forgive you. JACK: Never forgive me? CECILY: Never, never, never!

Pg37 CECILY: My little task of reconciliation is over.

Pg39 CECILY: It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from any one to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.