The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reconstructive Critical Edition
Act I: Interview Scene, Lady Bracknell and Jack
Between seven and eight thousand a year.
(Makes a note in her book) In land, or in investments?
In investments, chiefly. (Sitting R.C. on sofa)
That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during
one's life-time, and the duties exacted from one
after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.
It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that
can be said about it.
Fortunately] Fortunately, LC · England,] England LC · whatever. What] whatsoever; and now what LC · income] LC, AD, HD; actual income AF. ["actual" appears to be an interpolation in the Frohman text; it does not appear in the other three typescripts or in the four-act version (Berggren diss.). (Ed.)] · a note] note LC · investments,] investments LC · Sitting R.C. on sofa] Sitting R.C. AD, HD; LC omits · life-time,] life time LC · death,] death - LC |
AD = Arents-Dolan typescript AF = Arents-Frohman typescript HD = Harvard-Dickens typescript LC = Lord Chamberlain's typescript (licensing copy) |