Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest.Lady Bracknell. I’m sorry if we are a little late, Algernon, but I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury. I hadn’t been there since her poor husband’s death. I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger. And now I’ll have a cup of tea, and one of those nice cucumber sandwiches you promised me.Algernon. Certainly, Aunt Augusta. [Goes over to tea-table.]Lady Bracknell. Won’t you come and sit here, Gwendolen?
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She says that she does not want Gwendolen, an unmarried girl, to sit apart from her guardian.B
She says that she disapproves of Algernon as a suitable husband because he ate all of the cucumber sandwiches.C
She says that she expects certain treatment because she is a married woman.D
She says that Lady Harbury looks younger since her husband’s death.