Ah, aren't you with Uncle Jack? ALGERNON No. He's sending me away. CECILY Then we have to say goodbye? Oh, so soon? ALGERNON I'm aid that it's true. Oh, Cecily, can I speak openly? You are the sweetest, most beautiful, most wonderful person in all the world. CECILY I like it very much when you speak openly, Ernest. I'd like to write your words in my diary. (She starts to write.) all the world You can go on. I'm ready for more. ALGERNON Um-I love you deeply, wildly, hopelessly CECILY Hopelessly? That's a strange word, isn't it? ALGERNON But I do love you. You'll marry won't you? me, CECILY of course! We've been engaged for five months! ALGERNON Five months! But how did we get engaged?