Suspicious of a Happy Married Life
Last Modified on August 29, 2021LORD WINDERMERE: I am afraid—if you will excuse me—I must join my wife.
LADY PLYMDALE: Oh, you mustn’t dream of such a thing. It’s most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they’re alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
in Act Two of Lady Windermere’s Fan, by Oscar Wilde