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He goes to see her continually, and stops for hours at a time, and while he is there she is not at home to any one. Not that many ladies call on her, dear, but she has a great many disreputable men friends鈥攎y own brother particularly, as I told you鈥攁nd that is what makes it so dreadful about Windermere. We looked upon him as being such a model husband, but I am afraid there is no doubt about it. My dear nieces鈥攜ou know the Saville girls, don鈥檛 you?鈥攕uch nice domestic creatures鈥攑lain, dreadfully plain, but so good鈥攚ell, they鈥檙e always at the window doing fancy work, and making ugly things for the poor, which I think so useful of them in these dreadful socialistic days, and this terrible woman has taken a house in Curzon Street, right opposite them鈥攕uch a respectable street, too! I don鈥檛 know what we鈥檙e coming to! And they tell me that Windermere goes there four and five times a week鈥攖hey see him. They can鈥檛 help it鈥攁nd although they never talk scandal, they鈥攚ell, of course鈥攖hey remark on it to every one. And the worst of it all is that I have been told that this woman has got a great deal of money out of somebody, for it seems that she came to London six months ago without anything at all to speak of, and now she has this charming house in Mayfair, drives her ponies in the Park every afternoon and all鈥攚ell, all鈥攕ince she has known poor dear Windermere [... ] it鈥檚 quite true, my dear. The whole of London knows it. That is why I felt it was better to come and talk to you, and advise you to take Windermere away at once to Homburg or to Aix, where he鈥檒l have something to amuse him, and where you can watch him all day long. I assure you, my dear, that on several occasions after I was first married, I had to pretend to be very ill, and was obliged to drink the most unpleasant mineral waters, merely to get Berwick out of town. He was so extremely susceptible. Though I am bound to say he never gave away any large sums of money to anybody. He is far too high-principled for that!

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