Lane brings the cirgarette case on a silver plate.
Jack : Have you had my case all this time
Algernon : takes the cigarette case. Lane goes out.
Algernon : ( Opening the case and looking inside ) Well,what do I see here? This is not your cigarette case.
Jack : Of course it's mine!
Algernon: (reading) 'Form little Cerily,with love.' You do not know anyone with that name, so it can't be yours.
Jack : If you really want to know, Cerily is my aunt.
Algernon : Your aunt! So why ' little Cerily'?
Jack Well, some aunts are tall, some are not.
Algernon : Yes, but why does this small aunt say 'Form little Cerily, with love to her Uncle Jack'? You aren't her uncle. And your name isn't Jack, it's Ernest
Jack : It isn't Erest, it's Jack
algernon : You've always told me that it was Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest.You're the most earnest-looking person that I've ever met .Look,your name's ever on your cards.(He takes a card form the case,and reads it)'Mr Ernest Worthing, B4, The Albany.'
Jack : Well,I'm Ernest in town and jack in the country, and I got the cigerette case in the country.
Algernon : Ah,I knew that you where a secret Bunburyist